Rod McLachlan Movies
A slacker college student whose higher education has become a blur of drunken parties and casual sex falls for a pretty and studious girl who isn't like the other girls in a thoughtful coming of age drama starring Frank Langella, Laura Allen, and Bruce Marshall Romans. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Frank Langella, Laura Allen, (more)
An ailing criminal and his excitement-starved nurse decide to knock over a bank for fun and profit in this comic suspense story. Legendary bank robber Henry Manning (Paul Newman) pushes his luck too far and ends up in prison, where he suffers a massive stroke. He is transferred to a nursing home, in the care of Carol Ann McKay (Linda Fiorentino), a high school prom queen who married her boyfriend Wayne (Dermot Mulroney), the star of her school's football team, and whose glamour days are well behind her. After a few of her personal effects mysteriously disappear, Carol Ann starts to suspect that Henry isn't as sick as he seems, and she and Wayne are soon working with Henry to plan his last and greatest score. The title comes from the remark attributed to the outlaw Willie Sutton, who when asked why he robbed banks, replied, "Because that's where the money is." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, (more)
- 1996
- R
David (Dan Futterman) is a language expert who knows how to say "I Love You" in fifteen different languages. But he can't seem to bring himself to say it in plain English to his girlfriend of the past two years, Kathy (Susan Floyd), and that's putting their relationship in jeopardy in the romantic drama Breathing Room. Kathy and David have been having a hard time deciding if they should break up or try to work things out between them when, as he joins Kathy for Thanksgiving dinner with her family, she discovers David has applied for a job teaching English at a school in Vietnam. Careerwise, it would be a significant step for David, but Kathy is a bit miffed that he never saw fit to mention it to her before. Meanwhile, Kathy has her own professional dilemmas to deal with as she tries to kick-start her career as an animator. Eventually they decide to take a break from each other until Christmas, with no clear idea of just what they'll do after that. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Susan Floyd, Dan Futterman, (more)
- 1995
Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Chris Noth) dedicate themselves to identifying a young woman who was apparently killed while making a snuff film. They are both shocked and relieved to discover that the so-called victim, teenager Corey Russell (Monica Keena), is still very much alive. But things take another grim turn when it is revealed that Corey is somehow involved in a high school "sex-for-points" club. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1991
After being mugged, pregnant legal secretary Amy Newhouse (Molly Price) loses her unborn baby. The police suspect that the mugging was not random, and that someone -- perhaps Amy, perhaps her lover Christopher Baylor (Reed Diamond), perhaps her boss David Alcott (Nicholas Surovy) -- wanted the child dead. The problem: Can the D.A.'s office argue that the killing of an unborn fetus qualify as a murder? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
