Gary Day Movies

This collegiate farce directed by Theo Avgerinos had its world premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. After a party thrown by his roommate, Coleman (John Hensley), violates their dorm-room probation, college freshman (at a thinly veiled New York University) Darren (Lou Taylor Pucci) loses his scholarship money and scrambles to raise the funds by selling 50 ecstasy pills given to him as an apology by Coleman over the course of a hectic day. While loading the pills off on fellow college students, friends, family, and Coleman's customers -- including a dominatrix named Petunia (Monica Keena) and an insanely off-kilter stock trader (Eddie Kaye Thomas) -- Darren must also finish a paper on Dante's Inferno, deal with his parents (Jane Lynch and John Kapelos) in New Jersey, who think he's gay, elude the mysterious Soul Man (Ron Yuan), and try to convince his crush, Grace (Kristen Bell), that he's not a sleazy drug dealer. Darren's crazy day comes to a head when some stupid but vengeful thugs led by Eduardo (Michael Pena) track down both Coleman and Darren at their dorm while the stock trader shows up looking for more pills. ~ Michael Buening, All Movie Guide

Four twentysomethings living in the hip L.A. suburb of Silverlake struggle with love, lust, and ennui in this independently produced feature, nominated for two 2003 Independent Spirit Awards. Taking its title from the Cure song of the same name, Charlotte Sometimes concerns the shadowy existence of Michael (Michael Idemoto) and Lori (Eugenia Yuan), next-door neighbors who form an intimate -- if sexless -- friendship. Lori, committed to her sexually carnivorous boyfriend, Justin (Matt Westmore), but more emotionally connected to Michael, tries to convince her platonic neighbor to find a girlfriend. Fed up with his unrequited love for Lori, Michael does just that, hooking up with the dark and mysterious Darcy (Jacqueline Kim). But as Michael navigates his budding romance with Darcy, jealousies erupt with the other couple, and the secrets the co-eds withhold from each other threaten to break the two relationships apart. Written, directed, and edited by first-time filmmaker Eric Byler, Charlotte Sometimes had its premiere at the 2002 South by Southwest Film Festival. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

Holly McPhee (Jacqueline Bisset) is a woman leading two lives. Most people know her as a well-regarded judge and faithful wife, but only a few realize she is also the brains and beauty behind a crime ring responsible for a string of daring robberies, which she coordinates with her lover. Holly's dangerous obsession with crime and illicit sex leads her to bigger and riskier capers, until one day she and her lover find they've bitten off more than they can chew. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

In this lighthearted drama, a rough and tumble teenage girl with a love of astronomy convinces her neighbors that she is indeed, a Martian who has come to save the Earth. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

When a policeman from Scotland moves to Australia and joins together with an Aussie partner, they find themselves up to their necks in a land development scheme in which crooks are trying to gain title to some of the prime real estate in Sydney. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide

On assignment in Paris, the new IMF team harks back to the glory days of the original Mission:Impossible by staging a phony plague. It is all part of a strategy to foil black marketeer Catherine Balzac (Maud Adams), who has stolen the only sample of a new chemical that accelerates the aging process. But the IMF better do some accelerating itself before a terrorist group unleashes a real plague that could wipe out all of Europe. Written by Rick Maier, "The Plague" first aired on April 8, 1989. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This funky and intelligent sci-fi-horror sleeper from New Zealand features Gary Day as the maniacal Dr. Howell, director of the Trans-Cranial Applications Hospital, who conducts bizarre brain experiments in a subterranean laboratory on a remote island -- most of which backfire and turn his patients into murderous zombie slaves. Onto this island of weirdness ventures a group of youths -- including the troubled son (Michael Hurst) of the doctor's former scientific rival, whom the mad doc had hypnotized into murdering his father several years ago. The resulting confrontations between the dirtbike-riding kids and armies of rampaging mutants are action-packed and splattery as all get-out. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

In this sci-fi film a sophisticated computer develops its own mind and begins asking difficult moral questions of its inventor and his wife. The inventor begins spending many hours debating with his creation and the wife gets jealous. The computer's own morality is questioned after it witnesses a murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Jenny Neumann, star of the cult/trash classic Mistress of the Apes, stars in this tedious slasher movie from director John D. Lamond. A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the ensuing crash. Sixteen years later, Cathy is somehow named Helen and has become a psychotic actress. Since her mother died with a shard of glass in her throat, Helen begins hacking through the cast of her new play, "Comedy of Blood," in similar fashion. This is a torpid, slavish slasher film where sex equals death (there is copious nudity) and Colin Eggleston's script equals boredom. Lamond further mucks up matters with the standard subjective-camera shots during the murders, which are doubly pointless here because the killer's identity is obvious from the beginning. There is, however, some nice music by Brian May. Lamond returned with the smarmy sex-comedy Pacific Banana. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

This growing-up story, set in Australia during the '20s, features a young man (Christopher Pate) who gains from his wise grandmother's experience (Geraldine Fitzgerald). The 1977 film was produced and written by Michael Pate, who cast his son as the lead. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide