Bernard Lechowick Movies
- 2003
Joely Fisher starred in this weekly, hour-long drama series as Zoe Busiek, a professional blackjack dealer. After her sister Sue was killed in a car chase, Zoe left Vegas, returning to her hometown to care for Sue's three children. Here she came face-to-face with a disreputable insurance company who refused to honor Sue's policy and provide for her kids. This experience led Zoe into a whole new career as a full-time insurance-fraud investigator, with all the adventure and mystery attending this job. Also starring Rae Dawn Chong and Chris Potter, Wild Card premiered August 2, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Joely Fisher, Rae Dawn Chong, (more)
- 2000
Sex, drugs, and rock & roll happen to run in the family in this dramatic series produced for the MTV cable network. The Jackson Decker Band was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful rock group in the '70s and '80s, and after a 15-year layoff, Chase Rooney (Tom Lock), a recent honors graduate of Stanford's business school and also the son of the group's bassist Keith Rooney (David Nerman), has organized a reunion tour for the band. These days, the members of the Jackson Decker Band are older and wiser, and they've brought their children along for the tour, ranging in age from 16 to 23. Vocalist Annie Baker (Jennifer Dale), a recovering alcoholic, is accompanied by her better-grounded daughter Lu (Sarah Manninen), who was once Chase's girlfriend. Keith is traveling not only with son Chase as manager, but with Olivia (Jessica Welch), his free-spirited daughter. Drummer Rick Parsons (Bruce Dinsmore) has brought his straight-arrow daughter Darby (Jane McGregor) along to see the sights. And Travis Williams (Matthew Carrey) has recently learned that Jason Decker guitarist Drake Taylor (Ron Lea) is his biological father. Drake gets him a job as a roadie with the group so that Travis can get to know the father he never met while growing up. As the band members strive to avoid the chemical and sexual pitfalls that helped to sideline the band in the 1980s, the kids are tempted by the wild life of the road and have to deal with their own romantic entanglements. Live Through This was MTV's first hour-long dramatic series; the first episode premiered August 9, 2000. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jane McGregor
- 1998
In this TV family drama series, former high-school computer geek Dennis Sweeny (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) returns to his dying hometown, Hyperion Bay, situated on the coast somewhere between L.A. and San Francisco. As a successful self-made entrepreneur, Dennis can boost Hyperion Bay's economy with the local launch of a new high-tech computer firm. He faces a more difficult problem in dealing with his resentful older brother Nick (Dylan Neal). Filmed in Southern California, this series premiered September 21, 1998 on the WB. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Raymond J. Barry, (more)
