Chris Potter Movies

The toughest man in the American military faces a new kind of challenge -- looking after four kids in soccer-mom suburbia -- in this family-friendly comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Shane Wolf (Vin Diesel) is a former Navy SEAL who was assigned to protect a scientist working on a top-secret defense project for the government. Despite Wolf's efforts, however, an assassin slipped past him and murdered the man he was guarding. The inventor's project is still being stored in his home, so Wolf has now been assigned to protect Julie (Faith Ford), the scientist's widow, as well as her four children, Zoe (Brittany Snow), Seth (Max Thieriot), Lulu (Morgan York), and baby Peter (Kegan Hoover and Logan Hoover). Wolf has had years of military experience in some of the most dangerous places on Earth, but he doesn't know much about raising kids, and he soon discovers his new job demands he be a nanny as much as a bodyguard. The Pacifier also co-stars Brad Garrett, Lauren Graham, and Carol Kane. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Joely Fisher starred in this weekly, hour-long drama series as Zoe Busiek, a professional blackjack dealer. After her sister Sue was killed in a car chase, Zoe left Vegas, returning to her hometown to care for Sue's three children. Here she came face-to-face with a disreputable insurance company who refused to honor Sue's policy and provide for her kids. This experience led Zoe into a whole new career as a full-time insurance-fraud investigator, with all the adventure and mystery attending this job. Also starring Rae Dawn Chong and Chris Potter, Wild Card premiered August 2, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Beka (Lisa Ryder) journeys to the planet Veras, where lying has been purged and everyone tells the whole truth and nothing but. It seems that Beka's old boyfriend Able Ladrone (Chris Potter) is being held prisoner of Veras, accused of stealing valuable DNA samples. In her attempts to gloss over Able's checkered past, Beka tells one lie after another, putting herself and the Andromeda crew in jeopardy. The danger intensifies when Beka helps Able escape -- leading to a showdown in which both truth and loyalty are leading players. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

A plucky pilot searching for a missing relative gets bugged by a island controlled by giant spiders in this horror opus. Mercer (Alex Reid) is a pretty but all-business female pilot whose brother is a novice flyer. When a small plane he's flying crashes on a small island in the South Pacific, Mercer immediately assembles a crew and sets out on a rescue mission to find her brother. Joining Mercer in the search for her brother are Valentine (Chris Potter), a mercenary handy with a gun; Dr. Leon (Pepe Sancho), a tough-talking physician; Capri (Ravil Isyanov), a scientist investigating a strange disease that's been traced back to the island; and Susana (Neus Asensi), a good friend who is bright and resourceful. When Mercer and her associates arrive on the island, they believe they're ready for anything, but they're not prepared for what they find -- a breed of huge and deadly spiders, who are ready and willing to defend their territory and begin picking off Mercer's crew one by one. While shot in Mexico by a Spanish production company, Arachnid was co-produced by American producer Brian Yunza (through his multi-national Fantastic Factory production house), and helmed by American director Jack Shoulder. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Richard Benjamin directs the straight-to-video romantic comedy The Shrink Is In. Courteney Cox plays Samantha Crumb, a travel writer who suffers from a long list of phobias and disorders. When her psychiatrist, Dr. Louise Rosenberg (Carol Kane), suffers a mental breakdown, Samantha gets an idea to catch herself a man. She sets out to pose as a psychiatrist in order to win over the affections of her neighbor Michael (David James Elliott). Meanwhile, she inevitably meets and falls in love with shy Henry Popopolis (her real-life husband David Arquette). The Shrink Is In also stars Kimberley Davies and Viola Davis. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

The eighth and final season of the slick and sophisticated cop drama Silk Stalkings finds undercover detectives (and former husband and wife) Tom Ryan (Chris Potter) and Cassy St. John (Janet Gunn) continuing to solve perplexing crimes on behalf of their superior officer, Captain Harry Lipschitz (Charlie Brill), at a Palm Beach, FL police department. Highlights this season include the episode "Forever," a virtual replay of the series' third season finale, with Cassy relentlessly hunting down the lowlife who shot and nearly killed Tom (In a novel twist, Tom assists in the investigation, albeit as a part of an "out of body" experience!); and "A Clockwork Florida Orange," a perverse spin on Stanley Kubrick's already perverse 1971 film of (almost) the same name. The series ends with the tense and curiously downbeat two-parter "Noir," in which Tom is framed for murder by his duplicitious fiancée; Cassy is suspended; and Lipschitz is forced to resign. The climax occurs at an island casino, with several plot strands deliberately left dangling...but with the promise of even more intrigue (sexual and otherwise) in the near future! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

As Silk Stalkings enters its sixth season, undercover cops Michael Price and Holly Rawlins, a team created in season five by Palm Beach, FL police captain Lipschitz (Charlie Brill) as replacements for detectives Chris Lorenzo (deceased) and Rita Lance (retired), are nowhere to be found -- and in fact their disappearances are never completely explained. Now handling the assignments formerly allotted to the Price-Rawlins and Lorenzo-Lance teams are detective sergeants Tom Ryan (Chris Potter) and Cassandra "Cassy" St. John (Janet Gunn). Lipschitz had previously teamed Tom and Cassy to solve crimes of passion amongst the wealthy elite of Palm Beach, and had been pleased with the results. But there's a catch: Tom and Cassy are not only former partners, but former husband and wife. The sexual tension between the two cops is so palpable as to be overwhelming in several of the season six episodes, even though both Tom and Cassy struggle valiantly to get over one another by dating other people. Tension of another sort arises in the form of D.A. Alexander (Kent McCord), a "rules are rules" type for whom Cassy has nothing but contempt -- and for good reason. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide