Adam Weissman Movies
- 2008
A young science wiz and an ambitious reporter make a connection between a popular vitamin drink and a highly infectious alien virus in this sci-fi thriller starring Gil Bellows and Isabella Rossellini. If you live in Boston, odds are you're guzzling Hydropure by the gallon; it's the latest health drink craze, and it's flying off of the shelves. Even the mayor has a taste for Hydropure. But when the mayor is assassinated and the triggerman slips reporter Ben (Bellows) evidence of a Hydropure conspiracy, the race is on to stop our species from being taken over from the inside. Convinced that something ominous is afoot after his colleague offers scientific proof that Hydropure is infecting humans with an alien virus, Ben and fellow reporter Lisa (Maxim Roy) set out on a mission to stop the virus from spreading and save the human race. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gil Bellows, Maxim Roy, (more)
- 2005
- NR
- Add Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Rock Club to QueueAdd Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Rock Club to top of Queue
A lot have people have opened rock clubs for a lot of different reasons, but Larry Bloch is one of the few to have opened a music venue as a medium for social change. In 1989, Bloch and a handful of friends, none of whom had experience running a nightclub, opened Wetlands in New York City's Tribeca district, and as part of their business plan, each month a percentage of the club's proceeded were to be donated to a nonprofit Center for Social and Environmental Justice, with the annual payout often exceeding 100,000 dollars. In addition to the club's success as an avenue for fundraising, Wetlands helped give a home to a new breed of bands whose music suited the hippie-esque vibe of the club while opening new territories in improvisational rock, and Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, and Gov't Mule were among the acts who were regulars attractions at Wetlands before finding worldwide fame. Dean Budnick, a senior editor at Relix Magazine (a journal that frequently covers the jam band scene) makes his directorial debut with Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Rock Club, which examines both the music and the message behind this fabled venue. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- 311, Agnostic Front, (more)
- 2003
The father-son rap music team of Master P and Lil' Romeo headlined this family-oriented cable sitcom, which bore traces of such earlier hits as The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family. Master P played Percy Miller (which happened to be his real name), a music industry executive and the manager of his 11-year-old singer son Romeo (played by guess who). Others in the cast included Erica O'Keith as Romeo's prissy 16-year-old sister Jodi, Zachary Isaiah Williams as his scampish six-year-old brother Gary, Noel Callahan as Romeo's foster brother and best friend Louis Testaverde, Victoria Jackson as the kids' no-nonsense nanny Mrs. Rogers, and Brittney Wilson as 11-year-old Myra, the girl next door who harbored a crush for Romeo. The series premiered September 13, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lil' Romeo, Master P, (more)
- 2001
In this made-for-cable drama, Bo Derek plays Kathryn Garr, an attorney who has been struggling to put a drinking problem behind her. Kathryn needs one last chance to prove to her employers that she can still deal with an important case, and she's given a major challenge -- trying to win a new trial for a man who has been sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and children. Life in the Balance also stars Bruce Boxleitner and Stewart Bick. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bo Derek, Stewart Bick, (more)
- 2001
- Add Tales From the Neverending Story: The Beginning to QueueAdd Tales From the Neverending Story: The Beginning to top of Queue
Directed by Giles Walker and Adam Weissman, Tales From the Neverending Story: The Beginning is essentially a made-for-television retelling of the original Neverending Story, which was directed by Wolfgang Peterson in 1984. Mark Rendall stars as Bastian, a young boy who suddenly finds himself in Fantasia, the fantasy world in the mysterious book he is reading. It is revealed that Fantasia is dying because of an evil force called The Nothing. It's up to Bastian and the heroic Atreyu (Tyler Hynes) to save Fantasia and its Childlike Empress (Audrey Gardiner). ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mark Rendall, Tyler Hynes, (more)
- 1999
- PG
The classic Mark Twain novel receives a modern treatment in this adaptation directed by Adam Weissman. ~ All Movie Guide
