Howard Heard Movies
A successful real estate developer rediscovers his adolescent dreams of becoming a rock star after spontaneously performing with his old band at their 25th high school reunion in this musical drama starring Billy Ray Cyrus and Heather Locklear. George Barron (Cyrus) always dreamt of performing before thousands of adoring fans, but when life got in the way, he embraced the responsibilities of adulthood. Twenty five years later, George is attending his high school reunion when his old band-mates summon him on stage for an impromptu performance. Almost instantly, George is transported back to his youth, and it feels like the group never stopped playing together. When the band convinces George to take part in rehearsal and their first gig together proves an unmitigated success, they receive an offer to open for a high-profile reunion tour. Unfortunately George's wife Pamela isn't very enthusiastic about the prospect of her husband becoming a rock star, and when reawakened dreams collide with real life, the aspiring rocker is forced to weight his ambition against his business, his marriage, and his devotion to family. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Billy Ray Cyrus, Heather Locklear, (more)
- 2007
Night Court alumnus John Larroquette and Tyler Hoechlin co-star in actor-turned-director Keith Bogart's short feature The Rapture of the Athlete Assumed into Heaven. The film concerns a reporter (Larroquette) interviewing a tennis star who achieves his greatest athletic triumph - and greatest concomitant thrill - on the final day of his life. Novelist Don DeLillo adapted the work from his own play. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- John Larroquette, Tyler Hoechlin, (more)
Diane Ladd Lee Majors, Bernie Casey, and Amy Redford star in writer/producer/director Tonya S. Holly's childhood drama about a girl who leaves her loving family behind in order to overcome her fears and set her heart at peace. The year is 1965: Lily Strickland lives in Alabama with her loving mother Jenny (Redford) and her caring grandparents Thomas (Majors) and Edna (Ladd). Lily's father disappeared at sea years ago, yet his independent spirit lives on in the young girl who never lost her belief in dreams. After her husband died, Lily's mother refused to open her heart to another man. Only recently has Jenny allowed another man into her life, but Dean (Richard Tyson) has secrets that only Lily knows about. Lily may have never gotten the chance to say goodbye to her father, but now she feels him calling to her from the sea. Summoning the courage to strike out from her safe environment and seek out the answers that she cannot find at home, Lily befriends a kindly tugboat captain named Amos (Casey and sets out with her dog on the adventure of a lifetime. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Diane Ladd, Lee Majors, (more)
For his debut feature film, Iranian-American filmmaker Vahe Babaian wrote and directed this drama about the cultural struggles faced by a young man living in California. Mic Tomasi stars as Michael, an Armenian-American man who not only must face his own inner conflicts but the ones with those around him. His mother has recently passed away, leaving his father, Leon (Greg Satamian), to rely on Michael for certain things despite Leon's not wanting to be a burden on his son. Meanwhile, Michael's fiancée, Anna (Sophie Shahinian), is constantly pointing out the facets of his personality that lack maturity, and his friend Mato (Ioannis Bogris) is considering taking dangerous and illegal measures to bring his brother to the United States. After Freedom premiered at the 2002 Method Fest Independent Film Festival. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Starring:
- Mic Tomasi, Sophie Shahinian, (more)
- 1992
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In this drama, Helen (Jennifer Rubin) is an attractive woman who goes through a series of unsubstantial relationships; she then uses her brief flings as material for the film script she is writing. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jennifer Rubin, Lance Edwards, (more)
Set in a post-apocalyptic 21st Century, Aftershock offers us a world ruled by an unseen female voice, where scuzzy paramilitary groups wipe out anyone remotely intellectual. Held for interrogation by government flunkey John Saxon is empty-headed mystery woman Sabina (Elizabeth Kaitan). Sabina is rescued by a pair of resistance fighters (Jay Roberts Jr. and Chuck Jeffreys). Once she arrives at rebel headquarters, Sabina proves to be a lot smarter than we think-as well she should be, since she's a visitor from another galaxy. Having come to earth in the misguided belief that the world has reached a state of peace and harmony, Sabina decides to return to her home planet, only to be captured again by Saxon and his minions ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Elizabeth Kaitan, Chuck Jeffreys, (more)
A teenage Kevin Costner appears in this story of three young women and their love life, shot in 1974 but not released until 1986. The three women team up to rent a beach house in Malibu. One of them lands a job in a high school thanks to an investment broker she meets jogging along the beach. Another is taking acting lessons and enjoys horseback riding, though the young owner of the stable (Costner) turns out to be more interesting than the riding itself. And the third woman practices her guitar, shuns the owner of the studio where she records, and hangs out with her hunk cousin Steve, the fourth roommate in the house. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Terry Congie, Leslie Brander, (more)
In this exploitational slice-n-dicer masquerading as a police thriller, a college coed can do nothing while all her friends are being murdered by mysterious man wielding a meat cleaver. In true exploitational style, most of the women are killed in various states of undress and are not even assigned character names other than things like "Girl Stabbed in the Kitchen." A zealous cop begins investigating the case to stop the bloody butcher of bosomy babes. Look closely and you will see that the serial killer is played by a young Kevin Costner. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- William Kulzer, Elizabeth Trosper, (more)
