Peter Birkenhead Movies
- 2006
After a frantic round of "rough sex" wife his wife Maria (Samantha Mathis), a man named Bob (Eddie Mills) suddenly stops breathing. Bob is rushed to the clinic, where he develops a rash and an uncontrollable itch. Foreman (Omar Epps) opines that Bob is suffering from lupus--but House (Hugh Laurie) is convinced that the patient is the victim of an attempted murder. Meanwhile, a Wall Street trader (Peter Birkenhead) suffering from herpes insists that he hasn't been cheating on his wife (Stephanie Erb), and she insists she hasn't been cheating on him; which one is telling the truth (assuming that either of them actually is)? And though House is being driven slowly mad by his new roommate Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), he's forced to admit that the man is an excellent cook! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2005
The OR staff has its hands full with the victims of a spectacular car crash caused by flagrantly careless driver Bob Seibert. In the course of events, it is revealed that Seibert is a drug abuser, wife beater and all-around louse--and he is also in desperate need of a liver transplant. Ironically, the perfect donor turns out to be the very man whom Seibert killed on the road, placing the surgical interns smack in the middle of a major ethical dilemma. Elsewhere, George (T.R. Knight) is forced to work side by side with the same nurse who gave him syphillis; Webber (James Pickens Jr.) gets what-for from his wife (Loretta Devine) for having brain surgery without her knowledge; Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Cristina (Sandra Oh) do their best to lose themselves in their work and forget their romantic travails; and we finally find out the reason for the rift between Derek (Patrick Dempsey) and Addison (Kate Walsh). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2000
Gay officer John Irvin (Bill Brochtrup) of the Anti-Crime division helps the squad in their investigation of a missing-persons case involving a middle-aged homosexual, an angry nephew, a disgruntled lover, and a violent roommate. And Jill (Andrea Thompson), Diane (Kim Delaney), and Jones (Henry Simmons) try to help a timid rape victim (Emily Bergl) retrace the steps taken by her assaulters when they abducted her. NYPD Blue casting director Scott Genkinger appears uncredited as a lawyer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1999
- NR
Romance blooms during a very, very long cab ride in A Fare to Remember. Advertising executive Tamara Gault (Challen Cates) gets fast talked into taking an assignment for work on Christmas Eve, but she does so with an eye on the clock, as she needs to get from Seattle back to her home in Los Angeles in time for her wedding. However, Tamara discovers to her horror that all flights out of the Pacific Northwest have been cancelled due to an emergency. Desperate, she hires a cab driver, Winter Valen (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), to drive her from Washington to California. Tamara and Winter have absolutely nothing in common and don't much care for each other at first, but as time goes, by the ice begins to melt and Tamara starts to wonder if the man she really wants could be the guy behind the wheel. A Fare to Remember is most notable for an engaging performance by Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for his long run as Theo on The Cosby Show. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Challen Cates, (more)
- 1997
This first episode of ER's fourth season originally aired live on September 25, 1997, with two separate telecasts for the East and West Coasts. A TV documentary crew follows Dr. Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) during a "typical" shift in the emergency room of Chicago's County General Hospital. Still not completely recovered from a brutal beating, Greene is none too happy about being a "TV star," sentiments shared by the ER's attending physician Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes), who regards the camera crew as an invasion of everyone's privacy. As it turns out, the documentary makers get more than they bargained for as they record for posterity a gang fight, an out-of-control patient, and a heart attack. In the midst of all this confusion, Dr. Elizabeth Corday (Alex Kingston) arrives from England to witness American surgical procedures. The syndicated version of "Ambush" combines scenes from both the East and West Coast broadcasts, expunging a number of conspicuous continuity errors and an embarrassing moment in which a crucial prop is misplaced. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1993
A genetics researcher is found murdered in his trashed laboratory. At first, it appears that a militant animal-rights group was responsible for the killing. But the detectives and the lawyers unearth another possible avenue of prosecution when it is revealed that the dead woman's husband, Donald Walsh (John Cunningham), is a chronic philanderer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
