Kevin White Movies
Documentary veteran Christene Browne directs this coming of age drama, reportedly the first feature by a black Canadian female. Cassandra Jones (Sandy Daley) is a teen hailing from Toronto. While she tries to explore her African roots, her mother compulsively plays the lottery as her brother deals drugs. Later, she finds her ideals tested while working on a Quebecker farm, when she meets a worker from Mali (Tiemoko Simaga). Another Planet was screened at the 1999 Vancouver Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sandy Daley, Kevin White, (more)
- 1995
This sci-fi thriller takes the Frankenstein story a few steps further and sets it in the near future. Using a variety of human body parts, a scientist (Rutger Hauer) creates Lazarus, a young man (Will Wheaton) with superior mental and physical capabilities. Poor Lazarus would be perfect but for the terrible nightmares that plague him. He does not know of his gruesome origins and so goes to a psychiatrist for answers. But for Lazarus, learning the whole truth may be a dangerous endeavor, not only for him, but for the world. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rutger Hauer, Nia Peeples, (more)
- 1993
This documentary closely studies the effect of the Palestinian intafada, or uprising, on the lives of Israeli and Palestinian women. It is unusual in that it is basically non-partisan in tone, which should please neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians. Nonetheless, interviewees paint a grim picture of Israeli actions, including descriptions of torture and disregard for basic human rights. Understandably, the filmmakers had some difficulty passing between areas involved in the dispute, and that is also shown. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
Jessica Lange plays an attorney whose affable Hungarian-immigrant father Armin Mueller-Stahl is arrested. He is threatened with deportation for lying about his activities during World War II; part of the charge is that Mueller-Stahl was a Nazi collaborationist, guilty of wartime atrocities. Absolutely convinced that her father is being railroaded by a revenge-seeking Hungarian communist government, Lange handles Mueller-Stahl's defense, expertly blowing huge holes in prosecuting attorney Frederic Forrest's case. But in doing her own research, Lange discovers that her father has spent a lifetime paying off a blackmailer. Why? In contrast to the fervency of his earlier Z, Costa-Gavras refuses to make things easy by proselytizing in The Music Box (nor does screenwriter Joe Esterhas indulge in his usual right-between-the-eyes fervency). Everything in the film is offered on the same calm, collected level, making the ultimate horror of the story all the more effective. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, (more)
- 1985
Kate O'Mara guest-stars as the Rani, an exiled Time Lady. Encamped in 19th century England, the Rani -- now the dictator of the planet Miasimia Gora -- is draining the brains of the men behind the Industrial Revolution. The Doctor (Colin Baker) must not only stop the Rani, but also a more familiar and even deadlier adversary. Written by Pip and Jane Baker, and largely filmed at Blists Hill, an open-air museum in Britain's Ironbridge Gorge, "The Mark of the Rani" was originally shown in two parts, the first of which aired on February 2, 1985; for American television, the two 45-minute episodes were subdivided into four 22-minute chapters. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, (more)
