Chris Thomson Movies
In this supernatural chiller, a small community is utterly terrorized when a fleet of driverless trucks rolls into town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Timothy Busfield, Brenda Bakke, (more)
An older brother is faced with a wrenching decision after his investigation of his parents' murder implicates his younger brother, who curiously was named sole benefactor in the will. Based on a true story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Corbett, Gordon Clapp, (more)
- 1993
The Australian The Feds was not so much a TV series as an anthology of TV movies which happened to star the same people on each occasion (together with a collection of glittering guest stars). Based on actual case histories from the files of the Australian Federal Police, the program covered the "beat" from Australia to Hong Kong and back again. Many of the stories focused on the families of the cops, who though not always in imminent danger were usually affected adversely by the case at hand. Produced by Crawford Television, the 15 90-minute installments of The Feds were broadcast irregularly by the Seven Network from 1993 to 1995. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1993
Based on an actual event, this tense made-for-television drama recounts rescuers' heroic battle to save children attending a Comfort, Texas summer camp that has been devastated by a huge gully washer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joe Spano, David Lascher, (more)
- 1992
In this drama, a woman teeters on the brink of deliberately falling to her death. Flashbacks provide insight as to why and who she is. Somehow it all has to do with the mid-life crises of three old friends. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1991
Lindsay Frost is a private eye sucked into a messy domestic case. She's been hired by an anguished father to keep his allegedly psychotic ex-wife from kidnapping their daughter. Enter Veronica Hamel, another private detective, who has been engaged by the mother to reclaim the child from the father--on the grounds that dad is a child molester. Both Frost and Hamel are equally determined to fulfill their mission, and equally convinced that their individual client is the "right" one. But it's Frost who must rethink her strategy when confronted with evidence gathered by Hamel. Made for television and first shown on the Lifetime Cable Network in March of 1991. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lindsay Frost, Veronica Hamel, (more)
- 1989
The time is the mid-1950s; the place is a small, conservative town in Australia. Brownie (Charlie Schlatter) and Lola (Kylie Minoque), both well under the age of consent, fall in love. Their parents are dead set against this relationship, and do everything in their power to break it up. Because no one will leave them alone, Brownie and Lola rebel against their elders and embark upon a life of petty crime. Delinquents is based on a novel by Criena Rohan. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kylie Minogue, Charlie Schlatter, (more)
- 1989
William Katt, Catherine Oxenberg and Nia Peeples star in this comedy about an advertising agency who are about to lose their biggest client, the Saltaire Swimwear Company, until they come up with a brilliant idea -- create a swimsuit model talent search. Saltaire loves the idea and the media eats it up, but the contestants prove to be more trouble than anyone expected. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1988
In this suspenseful drama, a prominent publishing executive marries a younger man soon after the death of her husband. After the nuptials, the bride realizes she has made a terrible mistake as her charming groom seems to be planning to murder her. The film is also called Marked for Murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Made for television, Moving Target bears a few faint echoes of the 1986 theatrical feature Out of Bounds. Jason Bateman plays a teenaged musician returning home from summer camp. He is hardly greeted with open arms; as a matter of fact, his family has moved out in his absence. Compounding this traumatic turn of events, Jason becomes the quarry of a syndicate hit man (Jack Wagner)--and of the US Justice Department. It dawns on the boy that he'd better locate his family before anyone else does. Jason Bateman's leading lady in Moving Target is Chynna Phillips, daughter of musicians John and Michelle Phillips, and later the star of the TV biopic Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1985
The "three" in the Australian Three's Trouble are a harried housewife (Jackie Weaver), her smug husband (John Waters), and her handsome male babysitter (Steven Vidler). To the husband, the fact that the sitter is better looking than he is does not bother him all that much. What does gall him is that the sitter is so gosh-darned knowledgeable and efficient. The husband is forced to reassess his own value in the family unit. Three's Trouble screenwriter David Williamson (The Year of Living Dangerously, Phar Lap) wisely treats his characters warmly as human beings rather than stereotypical cogs in a farcical wheel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1985
In this drama, an Australian professor, his bored wife, and their children find their lives disrupted when a male baby-sitter comes to call. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1985
Empty Beach brings Australian novelist Peter Corris' detective hero Cliff Hardy to the big screen. F/X star Bryan Brown plays Hardy, who this time around is hired to confirm or disprove the reported death of a millionaire. Hardy confers with journalist Brian Henneberry (Clifford Tate), who has some potentially explosive evidence -- and who, inevitably, is murdered before he can talk. The trail of evidence runs hot and cold, thanks to a gaggle of suspects and hangers-on who aren't revealing everything that they know. Co-starring in Empty Beach is Anna Maria Monticelli, aka Anna Jemison. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bryan Brown, Anna Maria Monticelli, (more)
- 1984
The political battles waged by Australian Prime Minister John Curtin against Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and others during the Second World War are the subject of this docudrama. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
- 1983
When a pay cut sends Australian dock workers on strike, a group of Italian immigrants are hired to take their place, causing much resentment and hatred on both sides. However, when an Italian woman and an Australian man start up a passionate affair, they discover that they must work to preserve their relationship and stay true to their fellow countrymen. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
