Melissa Young
Reese Witherspoon stars in this romantic comedy, the feature film debut of award-winning Australian director Robert Luketic. As a ravishing Miss Hawaiian Tropic, sorority president, and calendar girl, Elle Woods (Witherspoon) is a big hit on the campus of her sun-drenched Los Angeles college. She's also got the perfect boyfriend in Warner Huntington III (Matthew Davis), a wealthy East Coast blue blood. Fearing that his snooty friends and family will never accept the bubble-headed Elle, however, Warner dumps her before heading off to graduate law school at Harvard University. Determined to win back her man, Elle enrolls in the same imposing institution, quickly becoming an object of scorn and ridicule, especially to Warner's old prep school flame (Selma Blair). Despite her penchant for malls, makeup, and tanning, Elle is no dummy and is soon showing elite Ivy League snobs a thing or two about class, self-confidence, and courtroom victory. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, (more)
- 1998
- NR
In George Demick's execrably bad horror film Asylum of Terror, people attend a cheesy carnival, the centerpiece of which is a haunted prison called Death Row. The prison was built in 1900 and was once an asylum for the criminally insane, housing an infamous serial killer. While waiting in line, the five teen leads meet a creepy weirdo who tells them to pretend there's a real psycho in the haunted house. The cast stumbles around dark hallways in tight close-up for what seems like an eternity, then a carnival worker is beaten with a hammer and unconvincingly hacked with a machete by a guy in a Jason mask. When one of the teens is really hanged to death in front of the appreciative spectators, it becomes clear that the psycho can proceed with impunity. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner) is a talented golf pro, who owns his own driving range. That sounds impressive, but the reality is quite different. While it's true that Roy is indeed a talented golfer and does own a driving range, it is in a tiny, unheard of Texas backwater. With almost no customers, he is likely to go broke. His golfing talents remain untapped and his life is rapidly going nowhere. To pass the time, he drinks a lot of beer with his buddies, or swings at a bucket of balls. Sometimes, he even plays real golf, and his friend and assistant Romeo (Cheech Marin) caddies for him. That's all there is for Roy, until he is wakened from his deathlike reverie by a visit from a newcomer in town, psychologist Molly Griswold (Renee Russo). Teaching her how to swing a club reminds him of feelings he had nearly forgotten. Discovering that she is the girlfriend of his old golfing rival, David Simms (Don Johnson), goads him yet further, and he returns to the PGA golf tour to compete in the U.S. Open. Maybe he'll get Molly for himself, maybe not, but in the meantime he has some things to prove to himself. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kevin Costner, Rene Russo, (more)
- 1995
Dr. Bashir sets up a holosuite program in which he recasts himself as a 1960s-style Earth secret agent. A malfunction causes Sisko, Worf, Dax, and O'Brien to be sucked into Bashir's computer-generated fantasy. Suddenly finding themselves in the middle of an old-fashioned spy melodrama, the foursome must rely upon the resourcefulness of the suave, tuxedoed Bashir to save their lives. Scripted by Ronald D. Moore from a story by Robert Gillan, "Our Man Bashir" made its American TV bow on November 27, 1995. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1991
When Eddie (K.C. Martel) elopes to Las Vegas with hat-check girl Tina (Melissa Young), Mike (Kirk Cameron) and Kate (Chelsea Noble) go along for the ride--not so much to witness the ceremony as to talk Eddie out of his foolishness. Upon finding out what's happened, Mike's parents Jason (Alan Thicke) and Maggie (Joanna Kerns) leap to the conclusion that it is Mike and Kate who intend to tie the knot. This is the last episode of Growing Pains' sixth season, and the last with the original production crew. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1991
Mike (Kirk Cameron) and his new girl friend Tina (Melissa Young) go on a double date with Eddie (K.C. Martel) and HIS new girlfriend, whom he describes glowingly as "The One." Turns out that the "One" is Kate Macdonald (Chelsea Noble), Kirk's former sweetheart. As the evening progresses, Kate and Mike realize that they're still in love--meaning that, if Mike were to follow his heart, he'd end up breaking Eddie's in the process. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
