Steve Thomas Movies
- 1999
- NR
Does true love mix with Sweet and Sour Chicken? That's the question posed by this romantic comedy that follows three couples whose dates have led them to the same Chinese restaurant. Goofy high school nice-guy Heath (Matt Barker) has taken Doug (Rachel Kimsey), a blonde-haired, blue-eyed cheerleader, out for dinner before heading to the prom. However, Doug is only going with Heath to make her former boyfriend jealous, though Heath doesn't realize it. Doug's mother Carolyn (Terra Allen) is dining at the same restaurant with her steady boyfriend Dean (Douglas Caputo); Dean is planning on proposing to Carolyn, but she values her independence and it's hard to say how she'll react. And Heath's older sister Beth (Brandy Snow) is on a dinner date with Trent (Christopher Marley), a smooth disc jockey who keeps making passes at her while she just keeps throwing them back. Fortune Cookie was enthusiastically received in its screening at the 1999 Hollywood Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Matthew Barker, Rachel Kimsey, (more)
- 1991
- R
This lively and off-beat Canadian comedy tells the tale of a regular Joe whose life is turned topsy turvy when he teams up with a strange restaurateur who convinces the fellow to invest in his latest project: an Italian restaurant with operatic waiters. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Robbie Coltrane, Michael Riley, (more)
Rob Lowe stars as the title character, a young hockey prodigy with a gift for scoring, but no such penchant for pugilism -- when the gloves drop, so does he. Despite his fragility, Coach Chadwick (Ed Lauter) takes him on the roster for his stick-handling ability alone. However, he ends up being sent home after being singled out by a particularly nasty goon, Racki (George Finn), who pummels the "pretty boy" in brutal fashion. Disheartened, Youngblood heads back to the rural Canadian farm he calls home, where his father (Eric Nesterenko, a former player for the Chicago Blackhawks) and older brother (Jim Youngs) teach him the invaluable lesson that hockey is "no place for a nervous person" (to quote a famous NHL announcer). Overseen by his elders, he immediately begins a combat-training regimen to prepare for his return and imminent showdown with the evil Racki; meanwhile, he strikes up a relationship with the coach's daughter (Cynthia Gibb). ~ Jeremy Beday, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rob Lowe, Cynthia Gibb, (more)
- 1969
Season Thee of Ironside begins as wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside (Raymond Burr) and his team set their sighs on prolific con artist Raymond Otis Baker (Joseph Campanella), who specializes in bilking little old ladies out of their life savings. Unfortunately for Baker--or, as he is now calling himself, Mr. Braithwaite--his most recent victim was the aunt (Beah Richards) of Ironside's bodyguard Mark (Don Mitchell). In order to trap the elusive "R.O.B.", Ed (Don Galloway) and Eve (Barbara Anderson) pose as a wealthy couple, ripe for plucking. But the plan goes awry when one of the villain's accomplices recognizes Ed from an earlier sting operation! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1967
Still anxious to serve his country in the military, Jethro heads to what he thinks is an Army-reserve recruiting office, and is immediately inducted into the ranks of the costumed movie extras appearing in a Civil War epic. The confusion is compounded when Granny, spotting the maneuvers of the "Union Army," is convinced that the War Between the States is starting all over again. William Mims appears as the tippling bit player cast as General Grant, while Lyle Talbot is seen as the film's military advisor, Colonel Blake. The first episode in a three-part story arc, "The Reserve Program" first aired on November 22, 1967. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
