Judy Engles Movies

A novel by Jane Foley is the source for this ABC Afterschool Special, which served as the opener for the series' 12th season on the air. Teenager Amy Cassidy (Cynthia Nixon) has developed a crush on her favorite soap opera actor, Zak Whittier. Though sensible in every other respect, Amy is convinced that Zak is the love of her life...or would be, if he only knew her. So imagine Amy's situation when she meets her new teacher, David Angelucci, who happens to be a dead ringer for Zak Whittier -- as well he should, since both roles are played by Mark LaMura, who in 1983 was starring as Mark Dalton on the ABC soap opera All My Children. ~ Rovi

In the hands of writer and director Ralph Bakshi, a popular underground comics character was the inspiration for the first X-rated animated feature in Hollywood history, over the strenuous objections of its creator, cartoonist Robert Crumb. Fritz is a feline college student of New York City in the '60s, using hippie buzzwords and fashion to score easy sex and drugs. After smoking some strong marijuana in Harlem, Fritz hallucinates and ignites a shooting incident with the police, resulting in the death of his friend Duke. Fritz flees across country in a Volkswagen Bug with a girlfriend and encounters a heroin addict biker rabbit and bomb-making terrorist radicals, obvious references to the Hell's Angels and the Black Panthers, respectively. A trippy journey through its anti-establishment times, Fritz the Cat (1972) was viewed as a must-see novelty, a radical departure from the juvenile, saccharine type of animation with which America was familiar. Nevertheless, the film was opposed by Crumb, who felt that his work had been bastardized. The film was followed by a sequel, The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974). ~ Karl Williams, Rovi