Brad Johnson Movies

Lead actor, onscreen from 'Nam Angels (1989). ~ All Movie Guide

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Sketch Artist: 1992

Sketch Artist is a made-for-cable thriller about a police sketch artist (Jeff Fahey) whose latest witness (Drew Barrymore) describes a suspect that looks exactly like his wife (Sean Young). Instead of revealing this information to the police, he suppresses the sketch while he does his own investigation. However, the police soon suspect that the artist himself might be involved in the murder. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide

Starring:: Jeff Fahey, Sean Young, (more)

An American Story: 1992

This fact-based drama centers on a sextet of WW II soldiers who are hailed as heroes upon their return to their hometown in Texas. Trouble follows when the vets unite to overthrow the town's corrupt politicians. They make a plan, but it is nearly derailed by the group leader's social-climbing wife and her father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

A Different World: Rule Number One: 1991

Whitley (Jasmine Guy) is convinced that Lena (Jada Pinkett) has a crush on Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison), who is tutoring the girl in calculus. At first pooh-poohing the notion, Dwayne panics and reacts in a churlish fashion when he finds out Lena's true feelings for him--but that's not the end of the story. And Ron (Darryl M. Bell) tries to persuade Kim (Charnele Brown) to help him become a cosmetics entrepreneur. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The Flight of the Intruder: 1990; PG13; Add The Flight of the Intruder to Queue Add The Flight of the Intruder to top of Queue

Two pilots go against the rule book in a bid to win the war in Viet Nam in this speculative military drama. Lieutenant Jake Grafton (Brad Johnson) is a U.S. Navy pilot stationed aboard an aircraft carrier after the death of his one-time flying partner Morgan McPherson (Christopher Rich), who perished during a recent, ill-advised mission. Lt. Grafton, who has become cynical about the current state of military affairs, is convinced that if the war were left to the soldiers rather than the politicians overseeing the Pentagon, United States victory would be swift and assured. Grafton shares this opinion with Virgil Cole (Willem Dafoe), a supremely confident new pilot under his command, and together they commandeer an A-6 Bomber, known as The Intruder, for an unauthorized bombing raid against Hanoi. The city had been declared off-limits because it was believed that it would have a negative impact on the Paris peace talks, so the raid lands Grafton and Cole in hot water. However, when the talks break down, President Richard Nixon authorizes the pilots to lead a new strike against Hanoi with everything they've got. Ving Rhames and David Schwimmer both appear in small roles that predated their respective rises to fame (in fact, this was Schwimmer's first movie). ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Starring:: Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, (more)

Always: 1989; Add Always to Queue Add Always to top of Queue

For all its state-of-the-art special effects, Always is essentially a remake of the 1943 Spencer Tracy-Irene Dunne fantasy vehicle A Guy Named Joe--minus the wartime context. Richard Dreyfuss stars as a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Dreyfuss is introduced to businesslike angel Audrey Hepburn (playing the equivalent of the Lionel Barrymore role in A Guy Named Joe). Hepburn instructs the spectral Dreyfuss to pass on his aviation knowhow to his young successor, Brad Johnson. Our ghostly hero also smoothes the course of romance for his earthly girl friend Holly Hunter, who after several months' worth of grieving has fallen in love with Johnson. John Goodman injects a dose of comedy relief as Dreyfuss' faithful buddy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide