Alain Goulem Movies

It isn't bad enough that divorcee Joanne Saunders must raise her son by herself and slave away for tips as a night-shift restaurant hostess. Now she must deal with an angry driver who runs her car off the road--and, in an apparent frenzy of road rage, continues terrorizing Joanne and her son long after the incident. But is this merely a random act of harassment, or can the demented driver be pursuing an altogether different (and more deadly) agenda? Originally seen over the Lifetime network on September 6, 2004, A Deadly Encounter (aka Over the Edge) posted some of that cable service's highest ratings, attracting 2.6 million viewers for its initial airing. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

K.C. Bascombe directs Sherilyn Fenn, Tom Sizemore, and Dave Foley in the crime thriller Swindle. An undercover police officer falls hard for a seductive criminal and soon finds himself helping her pull off a bank heist. The situation eventually comes to a head, and the cop must decide between lust and righteousness. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Thirty-three years after the demise of The Patty Duke Show, you'll be glad to know that Patty Lane is still seeing the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights, and that her identical cousin Cathy still prefers the minuet and crepe suzette, judging from the evidence presented in this made-for-TV movie. Patty Duke once again plays both Patty and Cathy; these days, Patty is a drama teacher at her old high school, and while she's still sees her old boyfriend Richard (Eddie Applegate), they got married after high school and have since divorced; they have a grown son and a granddaughter. Cathy, on the other hand, is a widow with a teenage son, currently living in Scotland. When the two cousins meet again at a family reunion, they join forces to do battle with Patty's arch-enemy Sue Ellen (Cindy Williams), who plans to buy Brooklyn Heights High School, tear it down and put in a strip mall. Also reprising their roles from the original TV series are William Schallert and Jean Byron as Patty's parents. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

The great achievement of The Boys of St. Vincent is not that it deals with the controversial subject of pedophilia among Catholic clergy, but that it deals with that subject so honestly, without resorting to melodramatics. At the core of this powerful film lies Henry Czerny's searing performance as Brother Peter Lavin. Czerny deftly shows in the film's first half how Lavin used the double-edged sword of adult and religious authority to intimidate his charges. And in the second half, when Lavin is confronted with the monstrousness of his crimes, Czerny's ability to construct a plausible set of denials (if you had seen only this part of the film, you might be tempted to believe him) lifts the film above a simple case study. Lavin's character, a man who translated his own troubled childhood into pain and affliction for others, is one of the most fascinating psychological studies in contemporary film. Co-writer and director John N. Smith is also to be praised for tamping down the urge to embroider this story with unnecessary flourishes. ~ Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide