Kerry Ehrin Movies
Matthew Broderick stars in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series. When a well-meaning but overly trusting security guard is wounded in an explosion created by the evil Dr. Claw, a beautiful scientist named Brenda (Joely Fisher) takes him under her wing and turns him into a crime-fighting dynamo by replacing his limbs with a wealth of gadgets and gimmicks. Now dubbed Inspector Gadget, the once-naïve guard can fulfill his dream of becoming a crime-fighting detective, and as he investigates his first case - namely, who blew him up -- he finds out that the man responsible also killed Brenda's father. Now it's up to the Inspector to find the fiend's identity and bring him to justice, using his homegrown bionic powers to crack the case. Inspector Gadget co-stars Rupert Everett, Dabney Coleman, Andy Dick, and Cheri Oteri. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, (more)
Popular comic and television personality Ellen DeGeneres had her first starring role in a feature film in this black comedy. Martha Alston (DeGeneres) is a thirtysomething single working as a producer for a talk show. Ever since Martha's younger sister got married, her parents have been after her to settle down, but Martha has had little luck finding the right guy. On Valentine's Day, Martha is depressed and drinking at a bar when she meets Whitman Crawford (Bill Pullman), who seems like the perfect man -- he's good looking, sensitive, intelligent, and affectionate. However, when she makes the mistake of telling her new beau that he can be himself around her, she discovers the real Whitman -- he's a horrible poet, he likes awful music, he enjoys shoplifting ("Stolen beer just tastes better!"), and he's a borderline psychotic who doses her with LSD for fun. What's more, his mother (Joan Plowright) and ex-girlfriend (Joan Cusack) hate Martha's guts and don't mind telling her so. So how can Martha convince her friends and family that she wants nothing to do with the man of her dreams? More importantly, how does she convince Whitman? ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman, (more)
- 1988
Still grieving over her miscarriage, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) buries herself in her work, while David (Bruce Willis) ponders the option of leaving town. Among Maddie's many cases involves Joan Spring (Cristina Raines-Crowe), who is worried that she will lose her husband to his ex-wife. Once again, what starts off innocuously enough as a case of domestic discord quickly deepens into a murder investigation--two murders, in fact. This one ends with a perilous balloon chase (yes, a balloon chase!) high above the Mohave desert. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1988
Now that Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) has returned to LA, David (Bruce Willis) has trouble believing that she has gotten married--or even that her husband Walter Bishop truly exists. Of course, David isn't about to admit how much he loves Maddie, which fact will color the incidents in subsequent episodes. Meanwhile, the Blue Moon Detective Agency has a new client: Lauren Baxter (Cristine Rose), who wants to get rid of her husband's mistress Bridget Graves (Kathleen Layman) by paying her $50,000. Assigned to deliver the money, David and Maddie once again end up in the middle of a murder case--which is unexpectedly untangled by the obsequious Bert Viola (Curtis Armstrong). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1988
This is the only Moonlighting episode in which neither Cybill Shepherd nor Bruce Willis appear. Instead, the focus is on nerdish detective Bert Viola (Curtis Armstrong), who has gone into a deep blue funk over an imagined slight from Blue Moon secretary Agnes Dipesto (Allyce Beasley). In the course of a very long night in which Bert is required to guard an "experimental grapefruit", he dreams of his future with Agnes, in sequences inspired by Rudolph Valentino's silent "Shiek" pictures and the 1940s classic Casablanca (in which "As Time Goes By" is replaced by "Chopsticks"!) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1988
In the last episode of Moonlighting's fourth season, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) returns to work after ending her brief marriage to Walter Bishop (Dennis Dugan). Her first post-nuptual case involves a public-relations man who wants to find his partner's lover, who has proven a major business distraction by penning gushy romantic letters. As Maddie and David (Bruce Willis) react differently to these letters, their assistant Bert Viola (Curtis Armstrong) broods over the fact that the Moonlighting fans have still not warmed up to him! The proceedings close as the entire cast frantically ad-libs a musical number when the writers go on strike. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1988
This week's episode opens as a helpful nurse recaps the previous weeks' activities to an ABC executive who'd been in a coma ever since he found out that David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) had still not gotten back together! As it happens, David is ruminating over his upcoming "role" in the birth of Maddie's baby. Perhaps David should enroll in a Lamaze class--a solution that (at first glance, anyway) makes a lot more sense than having him "practice" childbirth with his friend Bert Viola (Curtis Armstrong), who has stuffed a pillow in his shirt for the occasion! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1988
Pregnant with David's baby, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) has decided to return from Chicago to LA via train--but she's still not sure whether or not she and David should resume their relationship. En route, Maddie meets a dweebish fellow passenger named Walter Bishop (Dennis Dugan), to whom she pours out her heart--and a generous supply of story exposition. Meanwhile, Agnes (Allyce Beasley) and Bert (Curtis Armstrong) anxiously await Maddie's return so that they can fill her in as to what occurred in the episodes she has missed--little suspecting that Maddie has a bit of startling news of her own! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1987
In the first episode of a four-part story arc, detective David Addison (Bruce Willis) briefly curbs his flippancy to find out why his partner Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) is so unhappy of late. Following Maddie around town, David ends up trailing the wrong woman--and "wrong" hardly begins to cover the situation. Mark Harmon makes his first series appearance as Maddie's yuppie inamorata Sam Crawford, while Donna Dixon shows up as the "other" blonde--and listen for that "Three Stooges" reference, courtesy of the versatile Robert Wuhl. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1987
This final episode of Moonlighting's third season begins the morning after the BIG MOMENT, wherein David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) finally consummated their romance. Now, the time has come for the proverbial "second thoughts"--which spill over into the protagonists' latest detective case, in which wealthy heiress Margaret Kendall (Ann Hearn hires them to find out if her current lover is sincere, or merely a fortune hunter. Episode highlights include a scene between David and Maddie in which they argue that having a "real" romance would ruin Moonlighting, ultimately exiling the series to a suicide timeslot on Sunday nights (which, as it turned out, is exactly what would happen two years later!) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1987
Now that he knows Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) is pregnant, David (Bruce Willis) is pressured to do the "right thing" by Maddie's overprotective father Alexander (Robert Webber). Meanwhile, our harried hero must also deal with the increasingly disgruntled employees of the Blue Moon Detective Agency. It is clear by this point that David and Maddie love each other--and also that they may very well allow false pride to impede their future happiness. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1986
A nervous gentleman named James Bower (Stephen Godwin) hires David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) to solve a mystery involving his late wife. It seems that Bower has of late been receiving telephone calls and gifts from his missus, who is supposed to be dead. And if anyone should know that Mrs. Bower is no longer among the living, it is her husband--after all, he killed her himself and buried the body. Jack Blessing makes his first series appearance as Blue Moon employee MacGillicudy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1985
In high dudgeon, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) flies off to Buenos Aires to confront Ron Sawyer (Mark Lonow), the accountant who swindled her out of her fortune--and indirectly forced her to team up with wisecracking private eye David (Bruce Willis). As Maddie imagines all sorts of scenarios wherein she puts Sawyer in his place and recovers her money, David decides to head to Buenos Aires as well--not to get his cut of the loot, but because, much to his amazement, he misses the contentious Maddie. Alas, any hopes that the two detectives would consummate their relationship are dashed during a climactic poker game. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1985
Against his parents' orders, Mike (Kirk Cameron) goes for a ride on a dirt bike, only to suffer a painful fall. The trick now is to hide his injuries from Maggie (Joanna Kerns) and Jason (Alan Thicke), to say nothing of hiding his guilt and humiliation. Elsewhere, Ben (Jeremy Miller]) begins suffering traumatic nightmares, which are "analyzed" by Carol as part of a school project--a fact which Ben tries to turn to his financial advantage. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1985
The Blue Moon Detective Agency has finally posted a profit, but Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) spends every penny on a painting of herself. No, she's not motivated by vanity, but rather curiosity: The artist had never met Maddie, but was clearly infatuated by her--and shortly after completing the painting, he committed suidice. Or did he? One thing is certain: There are several unsavory-looking characters who'd love to get their hands on the mysterious portrait. Highlights of the this episode include the Bernard Herrmann-esque musical score, a wry comment by David (Bruce Willis) about the series' writing staff, and a climactic (and very messy) set-to in an auto-painting shop. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
