Terumi Matthews
"What do you call an actor, artist, or writer who has just moved to New York? A waiter." Taking this premise and running with it, The Waiting Game looks at the lives of six young creative types working at Peter's Backyard, a restaurant in New York City, while searching for their big break. Struggling artist Lenny, overly dramatic actress Andi, self-centered Joe, wannabe dancer Derek, aspiring model Shannon, and creatively and sexually blocked Dan interact with each other and their customers as they follow their dreams in the Big Apple. The Waiting Game was the debut feature for writer/director Ken Liotti, who helped finance the film by selling his record collection on the Internet. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Writer-director Hilary Brougher, during a four-week Super-16mm shoot, made her directorial debut with this low-budget time-travel tale about '50s journalist-novelist Tucker Harding (Terumi Matthews), author of The Sticky Fingers of Death. Transported from 1950 Brooklyn to the present, Tucker meets Drew (Nicole Zaray), who's just ended her relationship with used bookstore clerk Dex (Leo Marks). In the store, Drew stumbles across a copy of Tucker's novel and is intrigued to find, inside the book, a newspaper clipping describing Tucker's death 40 years earlier. Hilary Brougher describes this as "a story of two women, both New York area writers...entangled in non-linear time travel. There's virtually no special effects, so it's all in the head. The challenge is to make the audience believe that you're moving back and forth in time. And film, of course, lends itself to time travel." Shown at the 1997 Venice and Toronto film festivals. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Terumi Matthews, Nicole Zaray, (more)
- 1995
While babysitting Emily (Kelsi Copier), a young girl with a cleft lip, Monica allows the child to play with a neighbor kid. This infuriates Emily's overprotective mother Ginger (Terumi Matthews), an exotic dancer who is convinced that her daughter's facial difigurement is God's punishment for her own sins. Things get worse when Ginger refuses to allow Emily to undergo corrective surgery under the auspices of Opeation Smile, a Nashville-based medical organization. But Monica and Operation Smile representative Jeremy (Miles Fuelner) are determined that Emily be given every chance to lead a normal life--even if it means becoming innocently involved with a smuggler (Tone Loc) and heading skyward in a hot-air balloon! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
