Vicki Barkoff Movies
- 2003
Erin (Dina Meyer) is a young actress who has enjoyed little success in her profession and even less in her love life. Seeking out some easy money, Erin occasionally hires herself out to a detective agency as a "decoy", employed to lure married men into compromising positions so that their wives can establish grounds for divorce. All goes smoothly until someone begins making threatening phone calls to Erin. Can her stalker be an ex-client, her sex-hungry boss, or her new boyfriend--or someone that no one, but no one, would ever suspect? Filmed in Quebec under the title Decoy, Deception was released directly to video in 2003, then had its American TV debut the following year, courtesy of the Lifetime cable network. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2001
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The long-running CBS drama series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was briefly resurrected in this made-for-TV feature film. Jane Seymour again stars as feisty 19th century doctor Michaela "Mike" Quinn, with Joe Lando as her sweetheart Sully. After a few minor crises in their frontier home town, Mike and Byron head to Boston, there to care for Mike's ailing mother Elizabeth (Georgann Johnson) and to attend the graduation of Mike's Harvard-educated daughter Colleen (Jessica Bowman). Spicing up the plot is a tense sequence in which Colleen performs an emergency tracheotomy and Sully settles a political argument by wielding a hatchet. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within was originally broadcast on May 12, 2001. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1991
- R
Picking up where Scanners left off, this sequel has good and evil scanners combatting when a crooked politician schemes to gain control of a major city. Scanners are people who, because their mothers had taken a certain drug during pregnancy, have acquired telepathic powers. Here, a "bad-guy" scanner escapes from a mental center and is hired by the politician to use his powers to gain control of others' minds, and then, their actions. A "good-guy" scanner teams with his sister to thwart these plans. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin, (more)
This anthology is set within a mental ward at a hospital where doctors try to cope with people suffering from a variety of ailments. Among the afflicted are a young man who believes his parents are really from outer space, a murderous television producer, and a prominent fashion photographer obsessed with a motivational record. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1989
True to the traditions of Canadian independent filmmaking, Horses in Winter is very much a one-person show. That person is Rick Raxlen, who produced, co-directed, wrote, co-edited and starred in this 90-minute remembrance of things past. From the vantage point of a crisis-ridden middle age, Raxlen thinks back to his eighth year, when, while on vacation with his parents, he nearly drowned. Jacob Tierney is seen in the flashback sequences as Raxlen's younger self. Lest anyone doubt the biographical nature or Horses in Winter, be advised that Rick Raxlen's character name is "Ben Waxman." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacob Tierney, Rick Raxlen, (more)
