Renny Temple Movies
- 1976
As most veteran All in the Family fans know, the Christmas season is seldom a joyous occasion in the Bunker household. This year, a bitter argument erupts between Mike and Archie when Mike welcomes his friend, David Brewster (Renny Temple), a draft dodger now living in Canada, to Christmas dinner. David's drop-in coincides with a visit from Archie's friend, Pinky Peterson (Eugene Roche), who lost his son in Vietnam. Much to Archie's surprise, it is Pinky who quietly and eloquently defuses a potentially explosive situation. Written by Jay Moriarty and Mike Milligan, "The Draft Dodger" was appropriately telecast on December 25, 1976. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, (more)
- 1982
Vera (Beth Howland) attends her high school reunion, where she meets her former flame Steve (Kip Niven). Those with good memories will recall that this is the same Steve who, a few episodes back, talked Vera into cashing a personal check--which promptly bounced. Apparently Vera's memory isn't quite that good: she returns from the reunion with a ring on her finger and a promise of marriage from the reboubtable Steve. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy try but fail to bring this flat comedy to life, while the story itself is hampered by intercutting between the years of 1982 in Los Angeles (Moore) and 1984 in Kuwait (Murphy), with no explanation of how these two disparate people and locations are related. Wylie (Moore) is an inept engineer trying to perfect a gyro system for his employers who contract projects with the U.S. defense department. Wylie accidentally gets some blueprints for another type of gyro -- and his company successfully manufactures the part, much to almost everyone's benefit. Unfortunately, these plans are coveted by a certain ruthless industrial spy (David Rasche), and the FBI itself is suspicious about the origins of the blueprints in Wylie's hands. Meanwhile (and in constant interspersed segments), Landry (Murphy) is trying to get his tank to stay on course, but no matter what he does the machine swerves and lunges at random -- could there be a gyro at fault here? ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, (more)
- 1985
- R
In an unusual comedy by Joan Darling, Brian Dennehy and Anne Archer star as the Richard, a druggist, and his wife Peggy, a pair of debt-ridden parents who rebel against the system. Nothing goes right while they try to uphold the system, then things get even worse when they leave it. Richard decides to pull the plug on modernity when he cannot meet his utility bills and creditors are at his door like wolves. He shuts off the electricity and sets up candles, buys a goat, and digs a well in the back yard. He finally does hit water, but it happens to be the city's water main. Peggy is not quite as crazed as her husband so she goes to see a shrink -- who promptly dies on her. If anything can go wrong for Richard and Peggy, it will. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Brian Dennehy, Anne Archer, (more)
- 1991
All signs indicate a less-than-merry Christmas for the Seaver family. Mike (Kirk Cameron) is consumed by jealousy over the thought of his actress-model girlfriend Kate (Chelsea Noble) doing a "bikini shoot" in Jamaica with a notoriously libidinous photographer (Stewart Finlay McLennan) Also, Carol discovers that her boyfriend Dwight is playing the field. And finally, for the first time ever, the "perfectly" decorated Yuletide tree may be an impossible dream for control-freak Jason (Alan Thicke). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1991
With Jason (Alan Thicke) and Maggie (Joanna Kerns) out of town, Mike must handle a major family crisis all by himself. To wit: the long-absent father (Gary Grubbs) of Mike's foster-brother Luke (Leonardo DiCaprio) has come to town, demanding that the boy he deserted years ago be returned to him immediately. It soon becomes apparent that, without the input of his parents, Mike may do something very desperate and very foolish to keep Luke in the Seaver household. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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