Dean Scofield Movies
Writer/director Wayne Kramer offers a glimpse into the aging Las Vegas casino world with the romantic drama The Cooler. Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is extremely unlucky at gambling, and he owes the Shangri-La casino over 100,000 dollars. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a "cooler," someone to gamble next to high rollers and give them some of his bad luck to stop them from winning. This arrangement works out for awhile, until Bernie has almost paid off his debt and meets cocktail waitress Natalie Belisario (Maria Bello). The two start to fall in love and Bernie's luck begins to change. However, the old-fashioned mob boss Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin) isn't going to let Bernie go so easily. Meanwhile, Larry Sokolov (Ron Livingston) arrives on the scene to help update the business management of the old mobster-run casino. Also starring Joey Fatone and Paul Sorvino as lounge singers. The Cooler was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- Starring:
- William H. Macy, Maria Bello, (more)
An adolescent boy learns the importance of being careful what he wishes for after he meets a genie willing to grant him anything he desires. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Matt Koruba, Stacie Randall, (more)
In this action adventure, a former hit woman comes out of retirement to rescue her daughter from kidnappers. The child's abductors demand that the ex-killer retrieve a highly classified document. They give the woman 24 hours to succeed. If she fails, her daughter will die. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Nancy Allen, Lance Henriksen, (more)
- 1994
- R
In this sequel to the erotic thriller Secret Games 2, the bored wife of a wealthy businessman is introduced into the world of prostitution by her blonde next-door neighbor and becomes a high-class hooker who works in a mansion with closed-circuit TV cameras. One of her customers turns out to be a professional killer, who finds out who she is and tries to blackmail her. ~ Brian Gusse, Rovi
- 1994
- PG
This made-for-video adventure is aimed squarely at younger audiences. The energetic quintet of pygmy dinosaurs that formed the basis of Prehysteria, returns, this time with an entirely different cast of people. Their exploits begin after they escape from their pen and leave the farm where they first hatch. Unfortunately, they blunder into a raisin shipment and end up sent to the home of rich but lonely boy Brandon Wellington (Kevin Connors). He shares his newest "toys" with his tomboy neighbor Naomi (Jennifer Harte). Trouble comes when Brandon's stuffy housekeeper Mrs. Winters learns that she is terribly allergic to his diminutive reptiles. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Kevin Connors, Jennifer Harte, (more)
- 1994
- R
The second in a trilogy of softcore thrillers from porn director Gregory Hippolyte is not, like its predecessor, based on a fascinating true story -- but is more straightforward adult erotica. Shannon Whirry returns as Jo, a new resident of suburbia who has taken up residence in the land of lawnmowers and minivans in an effort to achieve some normalcy. Jo finds work as an assistant to a photographer, Eric (Al Sapienza), who works for a skin magazine. She also meets her neighbors, Steve (Woody Brown), a handsome security expert, and his wife Katherine (Elizabeth Sandifer). When Jo discovers that her home is wired for secret surveillance, she realizes that it is Steve who is watching her, and she is aroused by his voyeurism. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
- 1992
When his daughter Renee Witherspoon is stricken with leukemia, father Bruce Davison hopes to find a bone-marrow transplant within his own family. The most likely candidate is Renee's half-brother Joe Mazzello. But Joe's natural mother (and Renee's stepmother) Joanna Kerns, fearful that her son might endanger his own life, refuses permission for the operation. This being a TV movie rather than a weekly series, there are no easy answers to the dilemma, either morally or legally. Desperate Choices: To Save My Child was first telecast October 5, 1992. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Joanna Kerns, Bruce Davison, (more)
In this taut outdoor actioner, a pair of teens head into the Rockies as part of a course in survival and end up having to use all of their skills to survive when they find themselves hunted by a pack of crazed mercenaries. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lance Henriksen, Mark Rolston, (more)
