Robert Munic Movies
A small-town boy hustling his way through the big city forms an uneasy alliance with a scam artist who inducts him into the violent world of bare-knuckle brawling in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints writer/director Dito Montiel's unforgiving urban action film. Arriving in New York City with little more than the shirt on his back, Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum) makes ends meet by selling counterfeit goods on the street. But times are tough and money is short, and just as things are starting to look grim, Shawn crosses paths with crafty con artist Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard). Harvey instantly recognizes Shawn's natural talent for street fighting, and offers to help the uneasy newcomer make some quick cash on the bare-knuckle circuit. But making a living by brawling isn't easy because the system is hopelessly corrupt, and the only people who really come out on top are the rich businessmen who place wagers on the disposable fighters. Still, Harvey's instincts were right, and Shawn quickly makes a name for himself by taking down every opponent who crosses his path, including mixed martial arts champs, veteran pugilists, and ultimate fighters. As each bout becomes more intense, Shawn realizes that his only hope for escaping this dark world is to face his fiercest opponent to date. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, (more)
An outsider teen acclimating to a new school finds a home in a reclusive teenaged fight club in this drama from Cry_Wolf director Jeff Wadlow. Jake Tyler (Sean Faris) has just moved with his family to Orlando, FL. While Jake isn't exactly comfortable being the new kid in town, his younger brother, Charlie (Wyatt Smith), is an aspiring professional tennis star who might just have what it takes to break big. But Charlie isn't the only talented athlete in the family, because Jake used to be something of a hotshot on the gridiron -- at least back home. Here in Orlando, Jake is considered something of a hothead thanks to his penchant for brawling. In an attempt to better fit in with his new classmates, Jake accepts flirtatious classmate Baja's (Amber Heard) invitation to a raucous party. There, the short-fused newcomer is lured into a fight and badly beaten by local bully Ryan McCarthy (Cam Gigandet). But a beam of hope shines through the humiliation when a classmate who sees potential in the defeated fighter informs Jake of a local MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) program run by Jean Roqua (Djimon Hounsou). Despite Jake's preconceived notions regarding MMA, he quickly discovers that it's not just another form of street fighting but a rich new art form that he longs to master. As Roqua takes Jake under his tutelage, it soon becomes apparent that in order to become a true MMA champion, Jake will have to learn patience, discipline, willingness, and reason. This isn't just a quest for revenge, but an opportunity for Jake to finally find out what kind of man he truly is. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Faris, Amber Heard, (more)
- 2008
Based on the real-life story of "extreme interventionist" William "the Cleaner" Banks, this series stars Benjamin Bratt as the title character, a man who overcomes his own addictions through a religious experience. After striking his own peculiar bargain with God, the Cleaner sets out on a career as an interventionist, getting between clients and their vices with the knowledge that reasonable tactics have no place with the addicted. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
Lou Diamond Phillips stars in the true story of a high school janitor who never graduated high school and now must get his GED or lose his job. With the help of his wife (Cara Buono), a teacher (Joan Chen), and the school's students, he perseveres and eventually earns his degree. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lou Diamond Phillips, Cara Buono, (more)
- 1998
Unable to slay a bad case of the flu, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is admitted to the hospital. While sleeping, she has a dream about a tall dark creature with a young boy. The next day she discovers the same boy is a patient in the children's ward. He says the creature is Death and has killed many children. A more obvious culprit is the unorthodox Dr. Backer, but Buffy finds him dead. Meanwhile, Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) suspects that Jenny's (Robia La Morte) death might be causing Buffy to fabricate a creature to fight, but he soon uncovers the creature's identity as Der Kindestod, or "child death." Buffy reinfects herself with her fever to battle the monster because he can only be seen by those in the feverish state. It is also revealed that Buffy first encountered Der Kindestod as an eight-year-old when her cousin died in a hospital. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1996
- NR
In the 23rd century, a penal colony in a distant galaxy falls into anarchy when an inmate loads a virus into the central computer system. While cryonic suspension was used to control the most dangerous criminals there, with the computers down, these deadly men are back in circulation and determined to cause mayhem. With a gang of brilliant but dangerous inmates in control, a petty thief and the driver of the prison's shuttle craft must stand against these lawless men for their own survival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1994
For every success story in Hollywood, there are dozens, maybe hundreds of people who exist on the fringes in a kind of limbo. They have given up on participating in life outside "the business," but don't really have enough much going on to warrant that. In this movie, a group of four such men get together at a low-key club in the Los Angeles area to hash over their experiences. The current situation of each man is reported to the audience by a waitress at the club, who has a sharp eye for these matters, even if she is one of the men's girlfriend. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joey Lauren Adams, Phillip Brock, (more)
Two brothers are the victims of their widowed mother's violent drunkard husband who spares no rod with the youngest brother. Reverting to a world of make-believe, they imagine that their Radio Flyer wagon can fly and that in it they can escape their tormenting stepfather. This film deals in an almost make-believe manner with the serious issue of child abuse. It is narrated by Tom Hanks. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, (more)
- 1991
In Sarajevo, in the year 1914, a recently expelled seventeen-year-old Serbian schoolboy named Gavre Princip (Rueben Pillsbury) threw the bomb that killed the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. For reasons that are sometimes confusing even to scholars, the whole of Europe was soon embroiled in the conflict we now call World War I. This drama explores the life of the blond, blue-eyed "anarchist" and Serbian nationalist just before the fatal bombing, and it underscores not only the boy's motives for his deed, but the conditions endured by subjects of the empire. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christopher Chaplin, Robert Munic, (more)
