Danso Gordon Movies
A guy is forced to do a lot of stupid stuff to protect the girl of his dreams in this teen comedy. Zach Harper (Milo Ventimiglia) is a senior at a high school with a strange tradition in which upcoming graduates are challenged to perform a series of pranks known as "the Dirty Deeds" if they want to avoid a humiliating encounter with the football team. In Zach's case, Dan Lawton (Matthew Carey) is a jock who has always had it in for him and has made it clear that if Zach can't complete the "Dirty Deeds," he won't be the only one in trouble -- he'll also go after Meg (Lacey Chabert), the girl Zach's sweet on, as well as Meg's little brother. Dirty Deeds also stars Charles Durning, Tom Amandes, and Mark Derwin. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Milo Ventimiglia, Lacey Chabert, (more)
The contradictions of America's simultaneous love and fear of violence go under the microscope in this drama from Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg. Dick (Jamie Bell) is a timid young man growing up in a mining town where he's been deemed to frail to work with the other men. Dick is given a toy gun by a girl who works in a dime store, and he becomes fascinated with the weapon -- especially when it becomes clear that the gun isn't a toy after all. Dick and a handful of other local misfits who are also interested in guns form a gang called "the Dandies," a band of self-styled pacifists who make it their policy to never use their weapons as they lead the town's young people by example. However, as their obsession with firearms grows, Dick and his fellow Dandies are approached by local police chief Krugsby (Bill Pullman), who asks them to look after Sebastian (Danso Gordon), the violent son of Dick's maid Clarabelle (Novella Nelson). At first, the Dandies see this as a challenge to bring Sebastian over to the cause of nonviolence, but soon his influence begins to impact Dick and his compatriots, with devastating results. Scripted by Lars von Trier, Dear Wendy received its North American premiere at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, (more)
- 2000
This television series follows the adventures of four teenagers who in their spare time help to serve their community as volunteer emergency medical technicians (EMT's). Hank (Danso Gordon), the son of a successful surgeon, is eager to prove that he has talents of his own. Jamie (Christopher Ralph) is a boy with a checkered past who is under court order to perform community service, which he approaches with a certain reluctance, but also an awareness that this may be his last chance to turn his life around. Val (Reagan Pasternak) is a bright, ambitious girl who wants to be a doctor someday. And Tyler (Shawn Ashmore) uses a cheerful disposition and enthusiastic attitude to camouflage the fact that he doesn't get along with his family. As the four youngsters balance school and their responsibilities as EMT's, they also have to deal with the trials and tribulations of growing up, and Val has to contend with her cynical friend Caitie (Jackie Rosenbaum) and her overly ambitious little sister Brooke (Lauren Collins). In a Heartbeat premiered on the Disney Channel on August 26, 2000. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Shawn Ashmore, Danso Gordon, (more)
- 1998
Moving from the Fox network to the Sci-Fi Channel for its fourth season, Sliders picks up the action some three months after Season Three left off. After innumerable "slides" through various wormholes taking them from one parallel Earth to another, extradimensional travelers Quinn Mallory (Jerry O'Connell) and Maggie Beckett (Kari Wuhrer) have finally arrived at Quinn's homeworld, Earth Prime--only to discover that the planet has been enslaved by the fascistic Kromagg Dynasty which Colin had briefly encountered two seasons earlier. The Kromaggs have captured fellow "sliders" Rembrandt Brown (Cleavant Derricks) and Wade Wells, enslaving Remmy and placing Wade in a breeding camp from which she will never return (actress Sabrina Lloyd) had left the series in 1997). More shocking news comes Quinn's way when, upon being reunited with his mother (Linda Henning), he is told that he was adopted--and that his actual homeworld is Kromagg Prime. Joining an underground resistance movement in hopes of liberating Remmy, Quinn and Maggie simultaneously embark upon an odyssey to find Colin Mallory, the brother Quinn never knew he had...until now. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
