Kelly Connell Movies

World-weary private eye Maury Hoover (Stacy Keach) is briefly shaken out of his lethargy when a shapely femme fatale--who looks a lot like Monica (Roma Downey)--slinks into his office, asking him to find someone named Jim Grant. Somehow or other, this assignment is linked to a runaway girl who calls herself Delphina (Amanda MacDonald), for whom Maury has developed a paternal affection. The outcome of the story is determined by Delphina's willingness (or lack of same) to change her standard story about "escaping" from an abusive household--and by Maury's success (or lack of same) in liberating the girl from her vicious pimp Scott Anderson). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Grissom (William L. Petersen) investigates when a jogger is apparently killed by a wild animal. Things get more and more curious when it develops that the victim's liver was removed before the authorities arrived. While the men of the CSI handle the jogger investigation, the women look into the death of a six-year-old child at a seedy carnival. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The CSI unit investigates when the naked corpse of a teenaged male is found in the desert -- with no solid evidence pointing to cause of death. The body of a woman recently interred in a cemetery is unceremoniously "relocated" to a dumpster. And when the dean of a private school is murdered, the killer seems to have a logical reason -- if indeed she is the killer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The lawyers are forced to consult another law firm when they encounter a murder case. ~ TV Guide, All Movie Guide

Confused about how there could be another Slayer, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) figures out that when she briefly died (see "Prophecy Girl") -- Kendra was activated as Slayer. Buffy is jealous at first of Kendra's dedication to her duties, but soon discovers that Kendra really doesn't care about helping people as much as she does. Meanwhile, Angel (David Boreanaz) is rescued from his cage by Willy the Bartender (Saverio Guerra) only to be handed over to Spike (James Marsters). Apparently, Spike needs Drusilla's (Juliet Landau) sire -- Angel -- to complete the ritual to restore Drusilla's health. Realizing this, Kendra and Buffy beat the location of the ritual out of Willy. They manage to end the ceremony before Angel is dead, but not before all of Drusilla's powers have been restored. Spike is injured in the fight, and subsequently the couple switches roles, with Drusilla having to care for Spike. This episode marks the actual beginning of Xander (Nicholas Brendon) and Cordelia's (Charisma Carpenter) relationship, as they argue, and then kiss, while trapped in a basement. ~ All Movie Guide

A natural disaster turns out to be a very artificial bit of outer space treachery in this episode of the sci-fi television series tar Trek: Voyager. A steady shower of asteroids has been raining down upon the home planet of the Ness, and the crew of the Voyager have offered to help them find a solution to this disastrous barrage. However, their attempts to vaporize the asteroids have not gone well, and they send a research time to the planet while the Ness ambassador is brought aboard the Voyager. r. Vat (om Towles), a scientist working on the asteroid project, needs to reach the Voyager to speak with the ambassador, but when the crew attempts to arrange transportation to the ship, they discover he attempted to leave on his own; r. Vatm seems confused and out of sorts, and soon dies after drinking water which turned out to be poisoned. Amidst all the confusion, it is learned that the asteroid shower was not a natural occurrence, but the handiwork of one of the Nezu's enemies. Star Trek: Voyager 160: Rise first aired on February 26, 1997 ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Marshall Herskovitz directed this tearjerking schizophrenic combination of The Wonder Years and To Kill a Mockingbird. It is 1972, and John Leary (Danny De Vito) and his two sons Jack (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.) and Dylan (Miko Hughes) have just moved to Oakland, California. John is a television celebrity who has been fired from one station after another, appearing now on a cheap local station as the Saturday night host of a horror-film showcase. But John spends most of the time drinking and grieving over the loss of his wife, who was recently killed in an accident. The children try to adapt to their new school, and the family tries to adapt to the collection of kooks that populate their neighborhood. Foremost among them is Norman Strick (Gary Sinise), a sinister neo-Nazi who lives across the street. When Strick circulates a petition for the local white-supremacist candidate, John gets drunk and attacks him on his television show. As a result, Strick takes his revenge by abducting one of John's children. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Pregnant Christine (Markie Post) enlists Harry (Harry Anderson), Bull (Richard Moll) and Dan (John Larroquette) as her Lamaze-class coaches, only to realize that she might have been better off with Moe, Larry, and Curley. The bulk of this episode is devoted to a series of fantasy sequences, wherein each of the male coaches imagines the influence they will have on Markie's child. But their imaginings are trumped by a fourth fantasy, this one conjured up by Christine herself. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

For most of the United States, February is the month of Presidents' birthdays and Valentine's Day; at the headquarters of "FYI", February means "Sweeps Month." Hoping to score a huge ratings coup, Murphy (Candice Bergen) and Corky (Faith Ford) team up to write a shocking expose of a crooked oil company. Unfortunately, their investigation requires the ladies to pose as members of the World's Oldest Profession--fish-net stockings and all! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

At the time of Longtime Companion's release in 1990, the devastating disease of AIDS was seen as a mysterious and deadly scourge, replete with rumors, lies, and panic. As the first narrative film to examine the AIDS epidemic, screenwriter Craig Lucas and director Norman René place the disease in an historical context, dramatizing the impact of the disease through time in a series of vignettes involving seven gay men. AIDS first made its presence felt surreptitiously, as an article in The New York Times reported on a rare cancer attacking gay men called Karposi's syndrome. Then the Village Voice began a series of in-depth articles concerning a "gay plague" which later became known as AIDS. The film follows the AIDS crisis through the lives of the seven main characters so that they are only aware of AIDS in the historical framework of each episode. The characters include former gay couple Willy (Campbell Scott) and John (Dermot Mulroney), first seen partying at a Fire Island club, who don't pay much attention to the mysterious article in The New York Times but become intimately effected by the disease. There is also Sean (Mark Lamos), a soap opera writer whose mind is slowly deteriorating because of the disease, and his supportive friend David (Bruce Davidson). ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Tom Cruise juggles Martini shakers and ice cubes as the materialistic Brian Flanagan, a bartender who drops out of school to search for the perfect "rich chick" who will bankroll him into luxury. Brian meets up with bar veteran Doug Couglin (Bryan Brown) and they put together a dance-duo bar-tending act, taking five minutes to a mix a drink as they dance and toss gin bottles behind the bar to cutting-edge rock music circa 1988. The patrons, instead of demanding the booze, are dazzled by their antics and cheer them on. As a result, the bartenders become wildly popular -- in particular, Brian, who finds the bar babes falling all over each other to hop into the sack with him. As a result of their bar-tending success, they get hired to tend bar at a swanky disco, but there Brian and Doug have a falling out, and Brian takes off for Jamaica. There he meets vacationing New York City waitress Jordan Mooney (Elisabeth Shue) and the two fall in love. But then Brian meets rich New York fashion executive Bonnie (Lisa Banes) who wants to take Brian back to Manhattan with her to become her drink-mixing stud. When Jordan sees this, the love affair is put on hold. But not for long, as pangs of consciousness begin to filter through Brian's drunken haze. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide