Keoni Waxman Movies
Producers Jack and Joe Nasser team with director Keoni Waxman for this biopic exploring the tragic life of Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith. Dancer and singer Willa Ford stars as the voluptuous Texan blonde who married geriatric American oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II before rising to fame as Playboy Playmate of the Year in 1993. Later, Smith's life took a dark turn when her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died of an accidental overdose while visiting his mother and newborn sister in the hospital shortly after delivery. The deeply troubled mother would suffer an eerily similar and lamentable fate just five months later when, in the midst of multiple lawsuits concerning her lavish waterfront home in the Bahamas and infant daughter, Dannielynn, Smith herself died of an accidental overdose in Hollywood, FL. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Willa Ford
A billiard-savvy street kid resorts to desperate measures after finding himself caught between a pair of veteran hustlers and a corrupt vice cop in this urban thriller directed by Keoni Waxman and starring Freddie Prinze Jr. Jericho Hudson (Prinze Jr.) knows his way around a pool table, but he's still no match for legendary pool sharks Cue Ball Carl Bridges (Ving Rhames) and Tenderloin Tony (Angus Macfayden). With some help from his grifting girlfriend Jezebel (Roselyn Sanchez), Hudson sets a plan into motion that will draw Cue Ball Carl and crooked cop Timothy Mortensen into a dangerous confrontation, but if the plan doesn't go just as planned Hudson might not live long enough to call his next shot. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Freddie Prinze, Jr., Ving Rhames, (more)
Gail O'Grady stars as Theresa Foley, a highly respected and much-decorated FBI hostage negotiator. Theresa's career goes down the tubes when she refuses to testify in court against her husband Frank (Michael Bowen), an FBI agent gone bad. Escaping from prison, Frank stages a daylight bank robbery, thereby creating the sort of hostage situation that only a crack negotiator like Theresa could possibly handle. But though the FBI is willing to press Theresa back into action, she knows only too well that Frank will be able to anticipate her every move -- and that he has a terrible vengeance in mind for his ex-spouse, one that will "take down" a number of innocent bystanders in the process. Made for cable The Hostage Negotiator was first presented by the USA network on May 22, 2001. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
A man who lowered himself to work in telephone sales finds himself not only fired from his job, but also set up by his former boss for fraud. His day continues on its downward spiral as his wife leaves him, and his corrupt landlady evicts him - - just before she herself dies. To top it all off, a young woman with two sinister travelling companions appears, claiming to be his daughter. The duo then sets out to find the truth about their relationship. ~ All Movie Guide
This direct-to-video thriller stars Jason London as a grungy-looking Seattle psychopath setting off bombs so as not to lose his Japanese sweetheart. Lori Petty, sporting a truly odd coiffure which must be her hair growing back from Tank Girl, plays a hard-bitten FBI agent determined to take London down. Subplots include Petty's squabbles with her boss and a visiting Japanese policewoman whose interests conflict with those of the Bureau. Despite its low budget and somewhat cliched plot, the film is well-directed by Keoni Waxman and should please mad-bomber buffs.
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lori Petty, Jason London, (more)
- 1995
- R
The events leading up to a young man's death are chronicled in this gritty drama. It all begins during a night of youthful carousing. Johnny is a Vegas hustler and just before the event, he and his good friend Grant begin fighting in a blind alley. One has a two-by-four and the other a gun. Watching the scuffle are Gale, Grant's girlfriend, and Martin and Amy. Unfortunately when the death occurred, each of these three saw something different. After the incident, the survivors take off across the Nevada desert toward the California border and their different viewpoints are chronicled via flashback. The story then begins jumping from recent past to present as they try to figure out how everything went so terribly wrong. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Stockwell, Janeane Garofalo, (more)
- 1993
Flung into a deep depression following his wife's accidental death, jazzman Morris Poole (Michael Madsen) borders on suicide, punishing himself for the tragedy. They had been in the middle of a violent argument when she accidentally fell from an upper-story window. Eventually he gets involved with another gal, who finds the still-depressed Poole pretty hard to figure out, as he just can't keep his mind from his first-wife loss. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael Madsen, Lynette Walden, (more)
