Jim Moriarty Movies
- 1998
The thriller A Difficult Woman features Caroline Goodall as Anne, a pathologist for a multinational drug corporation. Her good life takes a turn for the worse after her best friend is killed. Anne decides she must solve the mystery of the murder and starts applying her scientific skills to the evidence. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 1998
Costa Bodes directed this New Zealand drama with a screenplay by Duncan Sarkies based on his own play. After the death of her mother, 19-year-old glue-sniffing Grace Kelly Cuthbertson (Kirsty Hamilton) lives in a shack in the cemetery. When she meets unemployed carpenter Gerald Hutchinson (Jim Moriarty), he invites her to stay at his place and teaches her how to construct furniture. After the two become lovers, Gerald reveals that he's actually a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal World Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kirsty Hamilton, Jim Moriarty, (more)
- 1991
Alan (Phillip Gordon) has a family law practice and a family of his own. One day the whole setup seems impossibly claustrophobic to him, so he abandons everything and wanders around away from town until a ruined old mansion house in the country catches his eye, and he rents it. While there, he has incredibly erotic dreams of being in the arms of a lovely woman who died in the mansion a hundred years earlier. Intrigued at this encounter with the past, he enlists the help of two local men to help him research what happened to the girl. One of the men is a very non-traditional priest (Max Cullen), the other is simply someone from the area (Jim Moriarty). As the story progresses, it becomes clear that Alan's life and the dead girl's final story are beginning to resemble one another. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Philip Gordon, Alison Routledge, (more)
- 1988
Three women working for a singing telegram company contend with a variety of problems on St. Valentine's Day. The manager is gone, and one woman has lost her voice. The second woman has just broken up with her boyfriend, and the third is caught in a bitter child-custody battle with her ex-husband. One dresses in a gorilla suit to deliver one of the 50 singing telegrams scheduled for the busy day. If the trio ever hopes to find love again, they abandon all hope after meeting the meat-headed males they encounter. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carmel McGlone, Katherine McRae, (more)
- 1985
In a humorous look at a serious subject -- life and death on a small remote farm in New Zealand -- the underdeveloped characters in the story sometime lean toward a full parody, and sometimes are just simply funny. Alwyn (Roberta Wallach) runs a farm with her son Henry (Dean Moriarty) while many of the men are away fighting in World War I. After Major Martin Hudson (Marshall Napier) comes back at the end of the war, he takes up residence in Alwyn's farm as a hired hand. She certainly needs the help, especially since a local cattle baron is after her holdings. To make matters worse, she has been threatened with a Maori curse since her land is considered by the Maoris to belong to them. Martin and Alwyn have their work cut out for them as they tackle the threats to her farm and their own feelings for each other at the same time.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marshall Napier, Roberta Wallach, (more)
- 1985
In this undistinguished coming-of-age drama, Riki Nathan (Mitchell Manuel) has been sent to a boys' reform school and has to handle the vagaries of good and bad inmates as best he can. The young teens, mostly Maoris, only want to get out of there any way they can and go home, especially Willie (Junior Amigo) who has some unfortunate run-ins with the resident bully Karl (Nicholas Rogers). Riki resists getting into a scrape with Karl until Willie's misfortunes at Karl's hand make the showdown inevitable.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
