Meagen Fay Movies
- 1999
It is very possible that the much-anticipated and long-delayed wedding of Cory (Ben Savage) and Topanga (Danielle Fishel) will never take place. For one thing, bridesmaids Rachel (Maitland Ward), Angela (Trina McGee-Davis) and Morgan (Lindsay Ridgeway) despise the garish "Scarlett O'Hara" gowns that Topanga has chosen for the ceremony. For another, Cory (Ben Savage) can't choose between Eric (Will Friedle) and Shawn ( as his best man, fearing that both of them will do something incredibly stupid. Meanwhile, Alan (William Russ) and Amy (Betsy Randle) shave off some wedding expenses by asking Mr. Feeny (William Daniels) and his jazz ensemble to provide the music. Meagen Fay (Malcolm in the Middle) does an amusing turn as a professional wedding planner. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1998
With her marriage to Oswald (Diedrich Bader) only days away, Kate (Christa Miller) despairs over not being able to afford her dream wedding dress. Drew (Drew Carey) literally ponies up the necessary $5000 by agreeing to let his neighbors the Clemenses store a broken-down horse in his backyard. Alas, Drew's grand gesture is reward with hostility from Oswald, who has already purchased a cheap knockoff of the wedding dress and is convinced that Drew is trying to embarrass him in front of Kate. With all this going on, do we really need the drunken antics of the redoubtable Mr. Wick (Craig Ferguson)? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1996
Ordered to abstain from sex during the six weeks that his girlfriend is recovering from mono, George (Jason Alexander) finds that he has developed hyper-intelligence. Conversely, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) grows progressively stupider while helping out her boyfriend, an aspiring doctor. Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) has to develop a two-hour act for an appearance at a junior high school. And Kramer (Michael Richards) transforms his apartment into a non-PC smoking lounge -- and ultimately seeks out the counsel of Jackie Chiles (Phil Morris) when the tobacco has an adverse effect on his looks. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1995
Swedish supermodel Vendela guest stars in this episode, in which Miles (Grant Shaud) goes to extraordinary lengths to make Corky (Faith Ford) jealous, while Miller Redfield (Christopher Rich) anxiously awaits on the sidelines. Elsewhere, Murphy (Candice Bergen) begins drawing up plans for her marriage to Peter. Corky manages to be a part of this story as well, but not in the manner that Murphy would have preferred. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1993
Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) throw a party to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. Paul tries to recapture the excitement of the original nuptials; Fran and Mark Devanow (Leila Kenzle, Richard Kind) are separated and barely speaking to one another (he wants to kick over the traces by cruising cross-country in his new Range Rover); and romance unexpectedly blossoms between Paul's somewhat off-the-beam assistants, Warren (Steven Wright) and Connie (Meagan Fay). And those are the conditions that prevail as Mad About You closes out its first season. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1993
Jerry Lewis guest stars as "the nutty billionaire," aka Freddy Stadler, who wants Paul (Paul Reiser) to make a film about his life. Alas, Paul's new cameraman-editor Warren (Steven Wright) -- a veteran of CNN -- is as dull and phlegmatic as Freddy is wild and energetic. This episode marks the first appearance of Paul's assistant Connie (Meagen Fay). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1992
The Conners star as the "All-American family" in a television ad for Rodbell's diner. Rick Dees guest stars as Ken, the director of the commercial, and Adam Hendershott plays the producer. Meanwhile, next-door neighbors the Bowmans get ready to move back to Chicago, leaving D.J. upset about losing his friend Todd (Troy Davidson). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- 1992
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Joan Micklin Silver tries her mighty best to wring something substantial out of Frank Mugavero's banal sit-com screenplay concerning the effect of divorce on the divorced parents' off-spring. Hillary Wolf stars as Laura Chartoff, a lonely thirteen-year-old girl who is the victim of multiple parental divorces and remarriages. She lives with her current stepfather Keith Powers (David Strathairn), a cool businessman, and her flighty, self-absorbed mother Melinda (Margaret Whitton). Her biological father David (Griffin Dunne) is a struggling artist separated from his second wife Barb (Patricia Kalember) and is now living with a younger woman Stephanie (Adrienne Shelley), who is pregnant with twins. After a fight with her mother and stepfather, Laura runs away to a rustic cabin in the woods being built by her older stepbrother Josh (Dan Futterman). When she spots Keith and Melinda walking up the road to the cabin, Laura dashes off into the forest. Reported missing, all of the members of Laura's extended family converge at the cabin to try to find her. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hillary Wolf, David Strathairn, (more)
- 1991
The Bowmans move in next door and act snobby toward the Conners. At first Roseanne is jealous of their beautiful home and wishes Dan would do some remodeling himself. Then she unleashes her usual brand of insulting humor when the mother, Kathy (Meagen Fay), looks down on her parenting style and blames D.J. for her son Todd's (Troy Davidson) behavior. This episode contains one of the series' many sarcastic references to Bewitched. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- 1991
In this Halloween episode, Dan and Roseanne play a mean trick on next-door neighbor Kathy Bowman (Meagan Fay) and fear that she will retaliate. Meanwhile, Jackie flirts with a stranger at the Lobo Lounge costume party, who turns out to be her ex-boyfriend Booker (George Clooney in his last appearance on Roseanne). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- 1991
Next-door neighbor Kathy Bowman (Meagan Fay) blames Roseanne when she arrives home from a vacation and finds her house robbed. While at work at Rodbell's Diner, Roseanne gets involved in the fight between her boss, Leon (Martin Mull), and his boyfriend, Steven (Michael Des Barres). Bob Hope guest stars as a criminal in a lineup. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
When an overprotective mother discovers that her son has joined the United States Air Force against her wishes, she soon ends up training right alongside him in this lighthearted tale of motherly love starring Hector Elizondo I Dream of Jeannie's Barbara Eden. When mother shoes up in training camp to run the gamut with her patriotic son, the aspiring military man is embarrassed to no end. Thankfully for both mother and son, the pair is able to come to a tentative understanding that allows both to pursue their own dreams on their own terms. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Earning the type of divisive emotional responses normally reserved for those on the far right or the far left of the political spectrum, writer Tucker Max celebrated his debauchery-driven lifestyle in the memoir I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. Now Max earns credit as both co-screenwriter and producer of the film adaptation with this comedy from Niagara Niagara director Bob Gosse. In the film, Tucker (Gilmore Girls' Matt Czuchry) behaves very badly at his friend's bachelor party, getting his invite to the nuptials revoked. Can he renounce his (not-so) inner selfish jerk in time to recapture his invitation? I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell also stars Geoff Stults, Jesse Bradford, and Traci Lords. ~ Kimber Myers, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Matt Czuchry, Jesse Bradford, (more)
When Michael Crichton wrote his best-selling thriller Rising Sun, he wrote the character of hero John Connor with Sean Connery in mind. For Philip Kaufman's film version of the novel, Sean Connery, needless to say, fits seamlessly into the role of a legendary police detective who is an expert in Japanese culture. The story takes place in the towering office building of the Japanese Nakamoto Corporation in Los Angeles, who are negotiating a deal with Microcon, an American electronics firm. During a gala held one night in the Nakamoto offices, the body of a woman, Cheryl Lynn Austin (Tatjana Patitz) is found murdered in the main conference room. Arriving quickly on the scene is high-amped police lieutenant Tom Graham (Harvey Keitel), who oozes hatred for anything Japanese from every pore. When he has trouble getting cooperation from the Nakatomo executives, Graham calls in Web Smith (Wesley Snipes), a Special Services liaison, and John Connor (Connery), a man well-versed in Japanese culture and traditions. Together they form a team as they investigate the crime. Connor questions computer video expert Jingo (Tia Carrere), who works on a security system computer disc that captures the killer's identity. The only problem is that the image of the killer on the disc has been altered to conceal the murderer's face. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, (more)
The title character, played by John Turturro, is a Broadway playwright, based on Clifford Odets, lured to Hollywood with the promise of untold riches by a boorish studio chieftain (played by Michael Lerner as a combination of Louis B. Mayer and Harry Cohn). Despising the film capital and everything it stands for, Barton Fink comes down with an acute case of writer's block. He is looked after by a secretary (Judy Davis) who has been acting as a ghost writer for an alcoholic screenwriter (John Mahoney, playing a character based on William Faulkner). Also keeping tabs on Fink is a garrulous traveling salesman (John Goodman), the most likeable, stable character in the picture. And then comes the plot twist to end all plot twists, plunging Barton Fink into a surreal nightmare that would make Hieronymus Bosch look like a house painter. Once more, Ethan and Joel Coen serve up a smorgasbord of quirkiness and kinkiness, where nothing is what it seems and nothing turns out as planned. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Turturro, John Goodman, (more)
A woman who was used to the finer things in life is suddenly thrust back into the work force after her husband gets downsized in writer/director Callie Khouri's (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) American adaptation of the hit British comedy Hot Money. Faced with the prospect of losing her home as her debt begins to mount, posh housewife Bridget (Diane Keaton) accepts a job on the midnight cleaning crew at a local branch of the Federal Reserve Bank. When the growing temptation of the cash that surrounds her night after night ultimately proves too powerful to resist, Bridget teams with two of the other cleaners for a criminal exercise in creative moneymaking. Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes co-star in a crime comedy inspired by actual events. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, (more)
The 1939 Irene Dunne-Charles Boyer romance Love Affair, remade with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in 1957 as An Affair to Remember, became a vehicle for real-life couple Warren Beatty and Annette Bening in this 1994 rendition. The well-worn story remains the same, as a man and a woman, both engaged to other people, fall madly in love while traveling, indulge in a brief but intense affair, then agree to part and sort out their feelings. They are to meet again at the top of the Empire State Building if their feelings persist, but a series of unfortunate circumstances threatens to keep the lovers apart. Despite polished visuals and a time-tested narrative, this variation suffers in comparison to its two predecessors, not to mention the previous year's Sleepless in Seattle, which had drawn on An Affair to Remember for several of its most memorable sequences. It does features Katherine Hepburn's first film appearance in 13 years. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, (more)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a remake of the 1964 film farce Bedtime Story. Steve Martin and Michael Caine take over the roles originally played by Marlon Brando and David Niven: two international con artists, plying their trade on gullible wealthy women up and down the Riviera. Martin and Caine vie over the honor of fleecing ingenuous heiress Glenne Headly (in a role originated by Shirley Jones). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Steve Martin, Michael Caine, (more)
This family musical enjoys the dubious distinction of being the first film ever based on a theme park attraction, the "Country Bears Jamboree" at Disneyworld. Beary Barrington (voice of Haley Joel Osment) is an adolescent bruin raised by a human family after he was found by a park ranger, abandoned in the forest. Curious about his biological roots, Beary travels to Tennessee to seek out his birth parents while attempting to locate the members of his favorite musical group -- a defunct country music act called the Country Bears -- along the way. Country Bear Hall, the famed venue where the band was launched, is facing imminent destruction at the hands of greedy banker Reed Thimple (Christopher Walken), but young Beary has a plan to save the hall by staging a reunion benefit concert. Beary's path takes him through a guitar duel, a vintage coffee house, and a car wash, as he's pursued by a pair of bumbling cops (Diedrich Bader and Daryl "Chill" Mitchell) trying to reunite him with his adoptive parents. Meanwhile, a panoply of musical legends including Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, and Queen Latifah appear Behind the Music-style to comment on the Country Bears' alleged artistic influence on their work. The Country Bears, the first in a pair of planned Disney projects based on the company's theme park rides (the second is slated to be based on "Pirates of the Caribbean"), co-stars Stephen Tobolowsky, Brad Garrett, Alex Rocco, and Stephen Root. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Christopher Walken, Stephen Tobolowsky, (more)
