Peter Jordan Movies
- 2009
The time is the summer of 1984; the place, Schmalensted, Holsteinische Schweiz, Germany, along the golden shores of the Baltic Sea. 17-year-old Malte Ahrens (Cecil Vonrenner), known by the pseudonym "Roddy Dangerblood," comes of age under the tutelage of his uber-leftwing parents in a Holstein farmhouse. Life seemingly couldn't improve at all for Roddy; he's caught up in the throes of a wonderful ceramics apprenticeship and a nascent love of punk rock. Via a combination of basic elements, including romance, friendship and booze, Roddy decides to begin searching for the perfect music. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Cecil Von Renner, Ole Fischer, (more)
- 2008
With its unmistakable echoes of Wim Wenders' Kings of the Road, the German road movie-buddy comedy Sheep and Chips witnesses the friendship that evolves between two radically different men. Fuchs (Peter Jordan) is a genial foot control agent who spends his work days visiting a series of snack bars in Dithmarschen, Northern Germany and instilling order. Meanwhile, Tillmann Koch (Axel Prahl) - Fuchs's boss's brother and an ill-tempered alcoholic - gives up on the possibility of a happy life abroad and returns home to Dithmarschen to prove himself. Fuchs would love nothing more than to prove himself well suited for a job transfer to the big city, and that opportunity materializes when Tillman is assigned by the company to join Fuchs on an important business trip. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Axel Prahl, Peter Jordan, (more)
Director Kari Skogland takes the reins for a Buffalo Gals Pictures production starring Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn as author Margaret Laurence's much-lauded heroine Hagar Shipley. Hagar may by 90, but she not ready to lie down and die just yet. Her decisions stem straight from her heart, and that often alienates her family and friends. When Hagar's son, Marvin (Dylan Baker), takes his mother to look at a nursing home, she takes it as her cue to leave her family behind and set out on one great last journey. Her mission is to locate the seaside home she remembers from her youth, but Hagar's memory is quickly fading, making it difficult for her to distinguish the past from the present. As a young girl, Hagar was set to inherit her father's mercantile empire until she was disowned for marrying a bold young man named Bram Shipley (Cole Hauser). Later, when Hagar's romantic illusions fade and she begins to view her husband with contempt, her decision to deny her children the kind of parental approval that she so badly longed for from her own father provokes a deep hereditary flaw. As she makes her way toward the seashore, Hagar realizes her time is running far too short to make up for a lifetime of unacknowledged mistakes. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ellen Burstyn, Christine Horne, (more)
