Sean Patrick Flanery Movies
Bearing the kind of golden-skinned, blue-eyed handsomeness that often leads to predictions of superstardom, Sean Patrick Flanery has been acting on screens big and small since the 1980s. Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana on October 11, 1965, Flanery was raised in Houston, Texas. While attending Houston's University of Saint Thomas, he decided to take a drama class in the hopes of pursuing a fellow drama student. Flanery's interest in the girl proved fleeting, but the same could not be said of his interest in the theatre: after getting hooked, he packed up and headed out to Los Angeles, where he had an obligatory stint waiting tables before he found an agent. After eight months of looking for work, Flanery began acting in television commercials, which in turn led to work on various television shows. Although he made his film debut in 1987's A Tiger's Tale, it was his work in the 1992 television series Young Indiana Jones that gave Flanery his first taste of recognition. Although the series was short-lived, it did manage to build up something of a fan base, and Flanery continued to make Young Indy specials until 1996.In 1995, the actor returned to film, appearing in an adaptation of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp and starring in Powder. Unfortunately for Flanery, the latter film was mired in controversy surrounding suspect actions on the part of its director, which obscured the quality of the actor's performance. Flanery continued to appear in a number of films, including 1997's Suicide Kings and the 1998 Drew Barrymore vehicle Best Men. Also in 1998, he could be seen portraying a callous rocker in the independent film Girl. The following year, Flanery starred opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in the romantic comedy Simply Irresistible. Later that same year, he could be seen giving romance another try in Body Shots, a tale of angst-ridden twenty-somethings in L.A.'s treacherous dating scene. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
An airy romance in the tradition of classic Hollywood comedies of the Depression Era, Simply Irresistible (1999) also presses into service the food-obsessed magical realism of Like Water for Chocolate (1992). Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as Amanda Shelton, the chef at Southern Cross, a trendy Tribeca restaurant she inherited from her legendary mother. Not the most inspired of culinary artists, Amanda is running the establishment into the ground, until a cab-driving, Cupid-like guardian angel (playwright Christopher Durang) intervenes with a magical crab that puts Amanda in the path of slick spin master Tom Bartlett (Sean Patrick Flanery). Tom is opening a restaurant for his boss Jonathan Bendel (Dylan Baker), who wants to assure the eatery is no less than a four-star affair, but the temperamental French chef is giving fits to Bartlett and his secretary Lois (Patricia Clarkson). Enter Amanda, who falls head over heels for Tom, love suddenly bestowing upon her the gift of infusing her dishes with powerful amorous emotions that overwhelm diners with a rapturous ecstasy. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean Patrick Flanery, (more)
- 1999
In this made-for-TV adventure, the youthful Indiana Jones (Sean Patrick Flanery) is serving as a French intelligence agent during World War I when he's sent to Istanbul to investigate the murder of French spies by Turkish assassins. While danger lurks around every corner in Istanbul, a more powerful evil awaits Indy in Transylvania, where his adventures bring him face to face with the infamous Vlad the Impaler (Bob Peck). Young Indiana Jones and the Masks of Evil also stars Zuhal Olcay and Ahmet Levendoglu; it was edited from two episodes of the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (one of the original episodes was directed by noted British filmmaker Mike Newell). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Patrick Flanery
- 1999
This made-for-TV movie compiled from episodes of the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles follows the young adventurer's military career during World War I. While fighting with Allied forces in Eastern Africa in 1916, Indiana Jones (Sean Patrick Flanery) and his platoon are escorting a shipment of weapons and ammo when they roll into a village that has been devastated by malaria. Finding only one small child who has survived, Indy has to face the difficult choice of bringing a child into battle, or leaving him behind to certain death. As Indy and his platoon advance into the Congo, the young soldier is emotionally shattered by the horrors of war, but learns a valuable lesson about human compassion when he encounters the jungle hospital of Albert Schweitzer (Friedrich von Thun). Young Indiana Jones and Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life was edited from two episodes of the show: "German East Africa, December 1916" and "Congo, January 1917." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Patrick Flanery, Ronny Coutteure, (more)
- 1999
Most students on spring break don't want to do much more than drink some beer and work on their tan, but you just know that young Indiana Jones would have different ideas, and this made-for-TV movie, compiled from episodes of the TV series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, has him finding adventure between semesters at school. It's 1916, and Indy (Sean Patrick Flanery) is dating Nancy Stratemeyer (Robyn Lively), whose father, Edward (Lee Lively), has written several successful books about teenage detectives. Indy and Nancy visit the laboratory of Thomas A. Edison (Richard K. Olsen), and soon discover German spies are trying to uncover the secrets of Edison's latest invention. After Indy's dangerous run-in with the Germans, he's sent on a restful visit with his aunt in New Mexico, but once again, adventure comes looking for him; he's captured by Pancho Villa (Mike Moroff) and his men during the height of the Mexican revolution, and U.S. forces are called in to rescue him, leading to a meeting between Indy and a young George S. Patton (Stuart Milligan). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1999
In this made-for-TV adventure, young Indiana Jones (Sean Patrick Flanery) joins the Belgian Army during World War I, where his compatriots include Siegfried Sassoon (Stevan Rimkus) and Robert Graves (Jamie Glover). After surviving a skirmish in Flanders, Jones and his platoon are sent to fight in the bloody Battle of the Somme. Indy and several of his fellow soldiers are taken captive by the Germans, and after attempting to escape for a prison camp, he's locked away in a maximum security facility, where he makes the acquaintance of Charles DeGaulle (Herve Pauchon). Young Indiana Jones and the Trenches of Hell was re-edited from several episodes of the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, which aired in 1992. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Patrick Flanery
- 1999
Young Indiana Jones finds danger, adventure, and romance in this made-for-TV movie, adapted from the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Indy (Sean Patrick Flanery) is in Palestine in 1917, helping British military forces advancing upon the town of Beersheba. Sent on an undercover reconnaissance mission, Indy is teamed up with a beautiful female agent (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who is posing as a belly dancer. They learn that Turkish troops plan to destroy Beersheba's water system, and they must act quickly before the bombs go off. Along the way, Indy also meets up with the famous T.E. Lawrence (Dougie Henshall) -- better known as Lawrence of Arabia -- and Richard Meinertzhagen (Julian Firth). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
After making his directorial debut with the acclaimed made-for-cable movie Gia, writer Michael Cristofer helmed his first big-screen offering with this drama. When eight men and women in their early-to-mid-20s head out for a night on the town, hopping from one Los Angeles club to the next, not everything goes as planned as they discover the joys and perils of dating at the end of the 20th Century. Body Shots shifts among the perspectives of its eight characters, played by Sean Patrick Flanery, Ron Livingston, Jerry O'Connell, Amanda Peet, Emily Procter, Tara Reid, Brad Rowe, and Sybil Temchen. The film had a number of titles during production, including The Night Before and Jello Shots, the latter of which was reportedly axed to avoid legal problems with the company that makes the gelatin dessert product. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O'Connell, (more)
Former music-video director Tamra Davis (Guncrazy) created strong characters in this bank-robbery tale, a crime/comedy/drama somewhat reminiscent of the anti-establishment attitudes seen in early '70s films. After three years in a California prison, Jesse (Luke Wilson) is ready to marry his girlfriend Hope (Drew Barrymore) in the town of Independence (the original working title of this film). Joining Jesse is a odd assortment -- the buzzcut ex-Green-Beret Buzz (Dean Cain); ex-lawyer Sol (Mitchell Whitfield); geeky Teddy (Andy Dick); and Shakespeare-quoting Billy (Sean Patrick Flanery), aka Hamlet on the FBI's most-wanted list. Then they're off to the wedding. Billy, however, asks to be dropped off at a nearby bank, and after it's evident that Billy is pulling off another Hamlet heist, the others join him inside. Billy's father, Sheriff Phillips (Fred Ward), up for re-election, begins hostage negotiations, but the media arrives, along with psycho FBI agent Hoover (Raymond J. Barry) and his partner Carter (Art Edler Brown). Wearing her wedding dress, Hope goes inside the bank. Soon various friends and locals gather outside to offer support as the hostages take the side of their captors. In addition to portraying agent Carter, Art Edler Brown is the film's co-producer and co-scripter. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
Two young adults who are coping with the deaths of their partners try to move forward with their lives and start a relationship with each other. ~ All Movie Guide
Dominique Swain stars as spoiled, small-town high-school senior, 18-year-old Andrea Marr, who lives with her parents in an upscale suburb of Porter City, Washington -- where Andrea and her gal pals make the scene at various concerts and clubs. Before the summer ends and an Ivy League school takes her East, the virginal and somewhat confused Andrea hopes to achieve sexual satisfaction. She chooses Kevin (Channon Roe), but the encounter isn't quite what she was expecting, perhaps because she's more attracted to rocker Todd Sparrow (Sean Patrick Flanery). Absorbing advice from her friend Rebecca (Summer Phoenix), she plots a course of action and drops Kevin. After she succeeds in linking with her one-and-only, it's not long before she's disappointed to find that Sparrow has flown the coop. Swain's effective voiceover narration contrasts her careful plans with her impulsive actions. Shown in the market section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dominique Swain, Sean Patrick Flanery, (more)
Television director Peter O'Fallon made his feature film debut with this independent film that pays obvious homage to the style of Quentin Tarantino, with plenty of violence and funny, talkative hit men. Suave gangster Charlie Barrett (Christopher Walken) meets four young men who have taken over his regular booth at a popular bistro. Charmed by the swaggering kids, he agrees to take a ride with them, but they give him a sedative and he awakens in a deserted mansion, taped to a chair with one of his fingers missing. One of his abductors, Avery (Henry Thomas), says that he has a sister who has been kidnapped and they need two million dollars to get her back, as well as a finger to exchange for her severed digit. Charlie phones his lawyer Marty (Cliff De Young), who calls a henchman, Lono (Denis Leary), who investigates the kidnappings and gives Charlie enough information to start playing each of his inexperienced abductors against the others. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, (more)
Featuring a real granny knot of a complex plot, this violently hip, hyper-stylish crime thriller follows the exploits of Louis and Dody, two petty unemployed gangsters who get into deep trouble after they steal a job from a crime lord's cousin, whom they have already killed and stashed in the trunk of their car. They start out in Montreal but end up in Toronto to do the assignment. Louis pretends to be the dead man, while another cohort hires the two to kill a one-armed, nutzoid crime lord. En route to their hit, Louis and Dody pick up an old friend to assist them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Jack (Nick Sadler) is directing a college theater department's production of his play about a bank robbery, but the situation fails to ignite the play's actors: schemer Christian (Sean Patrick Flanery, Damian (Tyrin Turner),who is haunted by his past; and naive Alex (Michael Bondies), who has a rain-drenched tryst with attractive Kelly (Natasha Gregson Wagner). When Jack presents his cast with props, it quickly becomes clear the guns are real. With their creativity in the balance, the group wants to get as close to the truth as possible -- so they make plans to pull off a real robbery. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nick Sadler, Sean Patrick Flanery, (more)
- 1996
- R
Abounding with pulp-fiction-like violence, this cynical, black comedy/drama is set in an all-night Manhattan diner and begins when an elderly patron drops dead from heart failure after discovering that he holds a winning lottery ticket. With so much potential wealth within their grasp, it is small wonder that the customers and restaurant staff soon become like greedy animals while trying to decide what they should do. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Virginia Madsen, Sean Patrick Flanery, (more)
- 1996
Set in the mid 1960s, this drama follows the difficult relationship between a woman afflicted with multiple sclerosis, her husband -- a prep school teacher -- and one of his students. The story begins as Helen dreams of flying and reaching for something she cannot quite see. She is married to Bill, a loving but rather stern fellow. When not coping with her illness and trying to raise their two children, Helen tutors a student, the idealistic Dave, who though intelligent, does not work hard in school. Dave is secretly infatuated with Helen and dislikes her husband both as a teacher and romantic rival. Meanwhile, Helen continues to feel herself leaving her body at night. This feeling persists until she falls into a coma. Meanwhile Bill and Dave clash over her, not realizing that while her body is inert, her mind and spirit are very much aware of their struggle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1996
At a late-night diner somewhere in New York City, an elderly man drops dead after discovering that he has a winning lottery ticket. The diner's occupants -- who include two lawyers on a bad date, a tree-hugging waitress, and a lowlife regular -- decide to split the winnings between themselves, but quickly succumb to more greedy impulses. Bodies begin to pile up, but will the two cops who keep dropping by for free food even notice? The cast of this black comedy includes Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Alanna Ubach, Sean Patrick Flanery, and Flea. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
This unusual modern-day fable concerns a super-powered teenager who inspires nothing but hostility in the small-minded folk of his hometown. Sean Patrick Flanery stars as Jeremy Reed, nicknamed "Powder" because he is an albino. Powder has been living his entire 16 years in his grandparents' basement, but they have both passed away. The boy is removed from his home and placed in a school. There, science teacher Ripley (Jeff Goldblum) and psychologist Jessie Caldwell (Mary Steenburgen) discover that in addition to being an albino, their new student is the smartest person who ever lived with an IQ off the charts -- and that he is electrically super-charged, which renders him hairless. Powder also has miraculous powers of perception, ESP, and healing, which he uses to ease the death of the terminally ill wife of local Sheriff Barnum (Lance Henriksen) and to give a bigoted redneck hunter (Brandon Smith) a firsthand demonstration of the pain suffered by a deer he's just shot. Powder's gentle nature attracts a pretty coed, Lindsey (Missy Crider), but in spite of his Christ-like demeanor, Powder's abnormalities inspire hatred on the part of many bigoted citizens, especially school bully John Box (Bradford Tatum). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, (more)
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. After the death of his parents, Collin Fenwick (Edward Furlong) finds himself living in a small town with two of his aunts, Dolly (Piper Laurie) and Verena (Sissy Spacek). Verena is the more stable of the two, an entrepreneur who controls a number of local businesses and rules the roost with a firm hand. Dolly, on the other hand, is a gentle eccentric who claims to hear the voices of the dead as the wind whistles through the grass, and has developed a homemade concoction that supposedly cures dropsy. Dolly's potion attracts the attention of Morris Ritz (Jack Lemmon), a smooth-talking con man from Chicago who wants to snatch the formula away from her. Along the way, Collin also gets to know Catherine (Nell Carter), Verena and Dolly's quick-witted house maid; Amos (Roddy McDowall), a barber who is also the town's one-man rumor mill; Charlie Cool (Walter Matthau), a charmingly cynical retired judge with an opinion about everything; and Sister Ida (Mary Steenburgen), an accordion-toting traveling evangelist who has had a heroic brood of 13 children without benefit of marriage. The Grass Harp was directed by Charles Matthau, the son of Walter Matthau. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, (more)
- 1995
This episode in the continuing saga of the brave young adventurer has Indy accepting an assignment to take reconnaissance photos for a squadron of WWII fighters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Patrick Flanery, Ronny Coutteure, (more)
- 1995
- R
Two aspiring young rockers in love with each other, try to make it into Colin Gramercy's upcoming show. Gramercy is not only a major star, he is also the celebrity spokesperson for the World Unity Coalition, a front for a wicked, subversive organization. The girl, Lila, is chosen for a back-up singer. This low-budget hodgepodge of film genres, chronicles her exploits. Soon after she is chosen her boy friend Chris' grandmother suddenly begins having terrifying prescient dreams about the organization. Demons begin to attack her and she dies of a coronary, but not before she begs psychic, powerful Sister Kate to watch over Chris and Lila, who are both in terrible danger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1995
In this made-for-TV adventure saga, 20-year-old Indiana Jones (Sean Patrick Flanery) and his best friend Remy (Ronny Coutteure) find themselves in Europe shortly after the end of World War II, searching for the "Eye of the Peacock," a 140-carat diamond that is said to have belonged to Alexander the Great, with a map given to them by a man on the brink of death as their only clue. As Indy and Remy face off against any number of rogues and scoundrels, Indy begins to wonder if he really wants the treasure, or if it is the chase itself that's his real reward. Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye was originally produced as part of the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, which was produced by George Lucas, producer and co-author of the original Indiana Jones films. The supporting cast includes Tom Courtenay, Jane Ashbourbe, and Adrian Edmondson. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1994
In this chapter from the youthful adventurer's saga, Jones is assigned to catch temperamental director Erich von Stroheim, but through a series of mix-ups, Indy ends up appearing in a John Ford film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
This made-for-TV romance is a reworking of the legend of King Arthur's queen and tells how she forsook her real love and married Arthur in order to bring England together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sheryl Lee, Sean Patrick Flanery, (more)
