Lisa Collins Movies

This animated feature serves as the coda to the MTV series Daria, which spawned 65 half-hour episodes and one previous movie (Daria: Is It Fall Yet?) during its five-year run. It is wry teen misfit Daria Morgendorffer's senior year at Lawndale High -- time to figure out what university to attend. Her first choice is Bromwell, which is also the first choice of her blue-blooded boyfriend, Tom, whose illustrious ancestors are all alumni. When Daria, Tom, and Tom's mother head off for a campus visit, things don't go as planned. Daria almost bombs her interview; even worse, traffic, bad weather, and the need for Tom to suck up to the alumni keep Daria from getting more than a drive-by look at her second-choice school, Raft. Ironically, though, she gets into Raft and not Bromwell. Tom, of course, does, and the resulting friction leaves a question mark hanging over their relationship. College questions also plague Daria's friends: Jane frets over whether even to apply to art school in Boston, while Jodie must convince her status-obsessed father to let her attend a primarily African-American university where she can finally fit in. Big questions face even Lawndale's younger students as Daria's fashion-plate sister, Quinn, is forced to take a restaurant job to pay off the credit-card bills she's rung up on clothes; hanging out with college kids and helping a new friend through a drinking problem help give Quinn a new outlook on her previously shallow life; can the end of the Fashion Club be far behind? Daria: Is It College Yet? premiered on MTV on Monday, January 21, 2002; nearly commercial-free, the original presentation included the world premiere of the video for "Breaking Up the Girl" by pop band Garbage, alongside clips from all five seasons of the show. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

The politics of fashion, beauty, and popularity play an even bigger role than usual in this episode of the animated MTV series Daria. Kevin (voice of Marc Thompson) becomes the first victim of these powerful social forces when Ms. Barch (voice of Ashley Albert) assigns him an experiment: disguise his good looks behind a Quasimodo-like getup and gauge the reactions of everyday people. As Lawndale's dim quarterback learns what it means to be ugly, Quinn (voice of Wendy Hoopes) discovers that being merely almost perfect can also prove problematic. The entire Fashion Club is abuzz with news of fellow student Brooke's new nose job, but Quinn fails to manufacture the appropriately hyperbolic praise. Sandi (voice of Lisa Collins) accuses rival Quinn of thinking she's better than the others, then browbeats her into thinking she's actually not cute enough herself. Soon Quinn is pleading with Helen (voice of Wendy Hoopes) and Jake (voice of Julian Rebolledo) for some surgical assistance. When they turn her down, she enlists the help of sister Daria (voice of Tracy Grandstaff) in cutting class and making a cross-town trip to visit with cosmetic surgeon Dr. Shar. The gullible, insecure Quinn falls prey to the plastic-looking plastic surgeon's sales pitch, but Daria is strong enough to tear her away. Daria also has to contend with Dr. Shar's promises that she, too, can be transformed to match a grotesquely exaggerated computer simulation of beauty. In the end, Daria's atypically affirming assurances convince Quinn not to go under the knife -- or perhaps it's just because Brooke's extensive physical alterations don't turn out quite as advertised. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Daria (voice of Tracy Grandstaff) and Quinn (voice of Wendy Hoopes) get an unsettling taste of university life in this episode of the animated MTV series Daria. Obsessed about their futures, uptight mom Helen (voice of Wendy Hoopes) forces her daughters to take college-prep courses. She also arranges to accompany them on a tour of her own alma mater, Middleton. Out-of-it dad Jake (voice of Julian Rebolledo) soon wanders over to fraternity row, where he tries pathetically to recapture his college coolness. Meanwhile, Quinn, too, immerses herself in the Greek system, and the frat boys seem much more eager to interact with her than with Jake. Jolted out of her own misty collegiate reverie by the reality of campus mating rituals, Helen goes on a rampage to save Quinn from the keg partyers. Meanwhile, Daria experiences the depressing reality of much of college life as she watches the boob tube, checks out the campus employment opportunities, and ends up writing term papers for cash -- all while supposedly under the supervision of tour guide Heather. Eventually, the entire Morgendorffer clan receives the boot when the administration gets wind of Daria and Quinn's non-parentally supervised activities. College solicitations soon begin to arrive for Quinn, who's ecstatic, but their dubious nature is obvious to everyone else. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Sardonic teen misfit Daria Morgendorffer (voice of Tracy Grandstaff) and her dysfunctional family move from Highland (home of Beavis and Butt-Head) to the homogeneous suburb of Lawndale in the inaugural episode of the animated MTV series Daria. Daria's petite, trend-chasing sister, Quinn (voice of Wendy Hoopes), has no trouble getting elected vice-president of the Lawndale High Fashion Club. But Daria, despite wowing psycho teacher Mr. DeMartino (voice of Marc Thompson) with her knowledge of history, soon lands in the sort of hot water that will plague her throughout five 13-episode seasons and two full-length movies: Her smart-aleck answers to a school psych exam convince the administration that she's suffering from low self-esteem. Her parents -- shrill, self-assured lawyer Helen (voice of Wendy Hoopes) and clueless pushover Jake (voice of Julian Rebolledo) -- insist that she attend after-school self-esteem workshops. There, she befriends Jane Lane (voice of Wendy Hoopes), an artist whose wit is as sharp as her asymmetrical, dyed-black bob. Sensitive new-age English teacher Mr. O'Neill (voice of Marc Thompson) leads the seminars with a crunchy, desperate-to-relate earnestness while Jane and Daria make wisecracks to each other and refuse to be assimilated. Eventually, though, after learning that this is Jane's sixth deliberately unsuccessful trip to self-esteem school, Daria convinces her new pal to join her in mouthing the necessary platitudes. Their reward? A school assembly at which they're congratulated for their new self-acceptance. Jane displays typical flair in disrupting the ceremony, but Daria settles for embarrassing Quinn with a great, big public thank-you for her support. This humiliation will provoke Quinn to claim she's an only child for most of the run of the series -- one of many long-running subplots introduced in this episode. A spin-off of MTV's popular Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria was the brainchild of that show's former story editor, Glenn Eichler, who served as Daria's executive producer and wrote numerous episodes, including this one. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Daria (voice of Tracy Grandstaff) and Quinn (voice of Wendy Hoopes) both earn the wrath of a cheerleader and reputations as mantraps in this episode of the animated MTV series Daria. The boyfriend-stealing brouhaha begins, ironically enough, in the class of Ms. Barch (voice of Ashley Albert), a bitter divorcée who hates all men. Gleefully separating empty-headed cheerleader Brittany (voice of Lisa Collins) from her even dimmer quarterback boyfriend, Kevin (voice of Marc Thompson), Ms. Barch orders Kevin to team up with Daria and Brittany to partner with Upchuck (voice of Marc Thompson) for a class project involving behavioral modification. Soon, Kevin is spending all his time chez Morgendorffer, trying to help Daria train their mouse to locate its cheese in a maze. Desperate to be free of Kevin's incompetence, Daria sits him down in front of a TV sports channel and gets on with her experiments unhindered. Meanwhile, Upchuck blackmails partner Brittany into becoming his personal servant by brandishing photos of her dalliance with another school's qb. Despite this evidence of her own unfaithfulness, Brittany becomes obsessed with the notion that Daria is trying to steal her man. On a trip to Daria's, she also sees signs of a more realistic threat: the proximity between Kevin and Quinn, who's practically throwing herself at the football player plopped down in her living room. Hoping to save her man from Morgendorffer clutches, Brittany steals Daria and Kevin's mouse. But after discovering the larceny, Daria vows to team up with Kevin on a replacement experiment if Brittany doesn't return their test subject. Miffed, the cheerleader nonetheless complies. In the end, Daria receives an A, Kevin a D, and Brittany and Upchuck a lowly F on their assignment. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

Daria (voice of Tracy Grandstaff) descends into a personal hell of carsickness and commerce in this episode of the animated MTV series Daria. Karma bites the snide teen in the behind after she taunts sister Quinn (voice of Wendy Hoopes) about their parents' refusal to condone a trip to the mammoth Mall of the Millennium, 100 miles away. Mrs. Bennett (voice of Amy Bennett), Daria's economics teacher, soon announces a class trip to the very same center of consumerism. A long bus ride, lewd comments from Upchuck (voice of Marc Thompson), and the nauseating perfume fumes emanating from Brittany (voice of Lisa Collins) literally make Daria ill before she even gets to the mall. She's again sick to her stomach, this time figuratively, when she realizes that an informational session with the mall's upper management is actual a covert focus group, with her class the unwitting participants. Daria uses this observation to elicit gift certificates for everyone. Soon, she and Jane (voice of Wendy Hoopes) are dispatched to observe food court traffic patterns, while other students investigate other aspects of mall economics. Just as Daria is beginning to fear that she'll spend the entire millennium surrounded by merchandise, she spots Quinn, who has disobeyed their parents and cut class to go shopping with the Fashion Club. Daria blackmails her sister into providing immediate transportation home. Both girls are less than ecstatic later on when their parents experience a change of heart and offer to take them to the mall. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

In this action drama, an American mining engineer is deceived into returning to a civil-war-torn East African nation and forced into finding a missing plutonium shipment. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

A high-energy action adventure based on legend rather than historical fact finds Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) desiring to retire from law enforcement. With brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton), he arrives in Tombstone, Arizona intending to build his fortune. He discovers that long-time friend Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) is there and that the town is run by a group of brutal outlaws called the Cowboys. Earp, frustrated with his laudanum-addicted wife, begins a romance with traveling stage actress Josephine Marcus (Dana Delany). Meanwhile, the Cowboys terrorize the citizens of Tombstone unchecked.

When the town marshal is killed by a Cowboy, Earp steps in to prevent a lynching by an angry mob. He also refuses to hand the killer over to his fellows, beginning the enmity between the Cowboys and the Earp brothers. Virgil, overcome with guilt at doing nothing to help the Tombstone citizens, accepts the position of town marshal. With Wyatt and Morgan as his deputies, and the help of Doc, Virgil attempts to arrest several Cowboys, resulting in the famous OK Corral shoot-out. The Cowboys take revenge by ambushing two of the brothers and injuring Virgil and killing Morgan. The Earps leave town, apparently cowed. Wyatt returns, wearing the badge of a U.S. marshal, vowing to destroy every last Cowboy. He hunts them mercilessly, until the leader, Johnny Ringo (Michael Biehn) challenges Wyatt to a duel. While not regarded as an artistic masterpiece, "Tombstone" is considered the best of director George P. Cosmatos' prolific films. The all-star cast (including Thomas Haden Church and Billy Bob Thornton in small roles) delivers solid performances. Both William A. Fraker's cinematography and Bruce Broughton's stirring musical score are expertly designed for dramatic effect. Blood is shown liberally in several key scenes, but seems intended to show that there is nothing glorious in Wyatt Earp's actions, only necessity. He and his deputies take on the symbolism of the horsemen of the apocalypse -- dispensing judgement, and the Biblical references form a symmetry at the beginning and end of the film.
~ Lucinda Ramsey, All Movie Guide

Grieving over the death of their son, a married couple decide to take a long yachting trip for relaxation's sake. Their journey takes a dark turn, however, when they rescue a young man from a drifting vessel. The couple soon discover that the other ship's crew had been brutally murdered by their new passenger, and find themselves in a battle of wits against this violent sociopath. Interestingly, a previous attempt had been made at adapting the novel that inspired this film by none other than Orson Welles; footage from his unfinished version, known as The Deep, can be seen in the documentary Orson Welles: The One-Man Band. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide