Can I Do It...'Till I Need Glasses? 1979  R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: I. Robert Levy
Cast: Vic Dunlap, Walter Olkewicz, Moose Carlson, Joey Camen, Deborah Klose, Robin Williams, Ina Gould, Rod Haase, Pat McCormick, Judy Mazel, Roger Peltz, Jeff Doucette
This film is composed of a series of off-color skits concerning sexual capers. Robin Williams makes a brief appearance.
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Circle of Power 1983  R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Mystique
Brainwash
The Naked Weekend
Director: Bobby Roth
Cast: Yvette Mimieux, Christopher Allport, Cindy Pickett, John Considine, Scott Marlowe, Walter Olkewicz, Denny Miller, Hugh Gillin, Leo Rossi, Tony Plana, Carmen Argenziano, Mary McCusker
Bianca Ray (Yvette Mimieux) goes overboard in her duties as CEO when she requires officials in her company to attend in-depth encounter sessions.
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The Executioner's Song 1982  TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lawrence Schiller
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Rosanna Arquette, Christine Lahti, Eli Wallach, Jordan Clarke, Steven Keats, Richard Venture, Walter Olkewicz, Jenny Wright, Michael LeClair, Pat Corley, Mary Ethel Gregory, John Dennis Johnston, Norris Mailer, Kenneth O'Brien
Tommy Lee Jones takes on the role of convicted killer Gary Gilmore who was the first man executed in the USA after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The last nine months of Gilmore's life are the basis for this story. Gilmore is 35 years old when he is released from prison for armed robbery. He tries to go straight and fails. After killing two men during separate robberies, Gilmore is sentenced to death in Utah. Jones won the Emmy for his very believable performance as the villainous Gilmore.
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Exquisite Tenderness 1994 R, 99 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Surgeon
Director: Carl Schenkel
Cast: Isabel Glasser, James Remar, Sean Huberle, Peter Boyle, Beverly Todd, Malcolm McDowell, Charles Dance, Walter Olkewicz, Gregory West, Walter Olkewicz
This surgeon, bent on revenge from the killing of his brother when he was a boy, uses his scalpel for things other than surgery.
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Making the Grade 1984 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Preppies
Director: Dorian Walker
Cast: Judd Nelson, Jonna Lee, Gordon Jump, Walter Olkewicz, Ronald Lacey, Dana Olsen, Carey Scott, Scott McGinnis, Andrew Dice Clay, John Dye
Wealthy Palmer Woodrow (Dana Olsen) hires a poor kid, Eddie Keaton (Judd Nelson), to attend the elite Hoover Academy in his place while Palmer heads off for a good time in Europe. But it doesn't take Eddie long to gain notoriety and for events to surge beyond control.
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Meeting Daddy 2000  R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Peter Gould
Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Josh Charles, Alexandra Wentworth, Beau Bridges, Walter Olkewicz, Kristy Swanson, Edie McClurg, Cindy Bridges, Christopher T. Gray, Don Perry, Laura Cayouette
Aspiring Jewish writer Peter Silverblatt (Josh Charles) sets off from California to help his girlfriend Melanie Branson (Alexandra Wentworth) out of a tough situation. Melanie has been visiting her family home in Georgia, where family members (Lloyd Bridges plays the father) turn out to be more than a little eccentric. She had pleaded with Peter to find an excuse to get her back to L.A. earlier than planned. Peter's arrival on the scene sets off a new turn of events.
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Pronto 1997  R, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jim McBride
Cast: Peter Falk, Glenne Headly, James LeGros, Sergio Castellitto, Walter Olkewicz, Luis Guzman, Bradford Tatum, Laird Stuart, Glenn Plummer, Therese Kablan
This story begins in Miami's South Beach and ends up on the Italian Riviera as a bookie, Harry Arno (Peter Falk), and his ex-stripper girlfriend, Doris Patton (Glenne Headly), strive to keep one step ahead of the Mafia AND U.S. government agents.
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Stuart Saves His Family 1995 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Harold Ramis
Cast: Al Franken, Laura San Giacomo, Vincent D'Onofrio, Shirley Knight, Harris Yulin, Julia Sweeney, Lesley Boone, John Link Graney, Walter Olkewicz, Ted Raimi
The "Saturday Night Live" character Stuart (Al Franken) returns home to help his dysfunctional family get over the death of a relative.
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You Know My Name 1999 TV, 94 min.
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: John Kent Harrison
Cast: Sam Elliott, Arliss Howard, Carolyn McCormick, James Gammon, R. Lee Ermey, James Parks, Walter Olkewicz, Sheila McCarthy, Nataalia Rey, Jonathan Young, Perla Batalla, Walter Olkewicz, Marilyn Norry, Alexander Pollock, Alex Diakun
In 1924, early Western film director/producer Bill Tilghman (Sam Elliott) retired and is then called to serve as chief of police in Cromwell, Oklahoma. He accepts the offer and upon arrival in "the most sinful town in the West" tries to take control of Cromwell away from cocaine-addicted prohibition agent Wiley (Arliss Howard). But, the task proves to be very difficult. Based on true accounts of Bill Tilghman's life.
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| 1. Can I Do It...'Till I Need Glasses? (1979)
2. Circle of Power (1983)
aka: Mystique
aka: Brainwash
aka: The Naked Weekend
3. The Executioner's Song (1982)
4. Exquisite Tenderness (1994)
aka: The Surgeon
5. Making the Grade (1984)
aka: Preppies
6. Meeting Daddy (2000)
7. Pronto (1997)
8. Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
9. You Know My Name (1999)
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