Gregor Torzs Movies
Another of the PAX network's adaptations of the suspense novels of Mary Higgins Clark, the Toronto-filmed Lucky Day stars Amanda Donohoe as Nora Barkin, an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan (Gino Marrocco) jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed by an unknown assailant. Though discouraged from doing so by investigating detective Marinello (Tony Lo Bianco), Nora insists upon trying to solve Bill's murder herself -- and in the process she follows a trail of evidence leading to her own husband Jack (Gregor Torzs). Mary Higgins Clark's Lucky Day was originally telecast on April 27, 2002. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Amanda Donohoe
- 2000
Mark, who is 19, coping with the recent death of his parents, and paralyzed from the waist down, is sent to a center for the mentally handicapped. Placed there because no space is available at a more appropriate clinic, the former athlete is on the verge of suicide when Lisa, a new therapist, intervenes and promises to find a way to get Mark to the summit of one of the Alps he used to climb. Organizing a motley crew of climbers that includes Mark, herself, two mentally handicapped patients, and three juvenile delinquents, Lisa struggles to make it to the top with her difficult charges. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Regula Grauwiller, Gregor Torzs, (more)
- 1999
Noted filmmaker Roland Suso Richter directs this bittersweet exploration of life in newly reunified post-Cold War Germany. Opening in the actual Saxon town of Amerika, moving on to Berlin, and ending in America, the film follows the lives of Hans (Thomas Heinze), a bilingual German who prefers to be called Jack; Sara (Dennenesch Zoude) whose father is a black GI she never met; and Jo, a slick and savvy businessman who introduces Hans to Sara. Sara Amerika was screened at the 1999 Chicago Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dennenesch Zoude, Thomas Heinze, (more)
- 1999
A man discovers the difference between lust and love isn't as simple as he thought in this romantic comedy from Germany. Bob (Gregor Torzs) is a self-styled ladies' man in his mid-twenties who is making a concerted effort to settle down by marrying his girlfriend Claudia (Miriam Lahnstein). Claudia loves Bob so much she's getting breast implants in hopes that a more substantial bosom will encourage him to stick around. However, one morning Bob spots Barbara (Martina Gedeck) on the bus and is immediately infatuated; he chats her up and they go so far as to get a motel room before she calls things off. Bob is intrigued, however, and wants to know more about her; he discovers she's a bit older than he expected -- and the slightly insecure mother of three children. But as Bob and Barbara become better acquainted, they discover a real attraction has grown between them, and Bob has to decide just how he feels about Barbara before meeting Claudia at the altar. Alles Bob won enthusiastic reviews for Martina Gedeck's well-nuanced performance as Barbara. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Martina Gedeck, Gregor Torzs, (more)
