Tim Walsh Movies
An aspiring filmmaker from Hawaii sets out on a quest to win the heart of a high profile Hollywood actress, in the process realizing that is true love has been faithfully by his side all along. Jared Rogers is a twenty-two year old dreamer with an unfulfilling job, a nemesis dedicated to making his life miserable, and a family that doesn't understand him. Recently, Jared has fallen head over heels in love with red-hot Hollywood "It" girl Melissa Williams. At night, when Jared closes his eyes, his dreams are filled with visions of the big screen beauty, and over time his fixation with Melissa makes him an outcast even among his oddball filmmaking friends. The only person who seems to understand him at all is his best friend Alicia, though Jared's too distracted by his fantasies to even take notice. Though Alicia longs for the day that Jared will get over his fantasies and finally recognize that true love is fully within his reach, she reluctantly collaborates on a plan to help him meet the high profile object of his obsession, and the pair quickly begins production on the ultimate fan video. Dejected when Melissa's manager fails to respond, Jared sets his sights on Hollywood, and hatches an ambitious plan to use the media to reach her. When that fails too and Jared returns to Hawaii bitter and angry, Alicia makes the difficult decision to finally give up on him. Later, after an illuminating conversation with his menehune-crazy best friend Brandon, Jared decides to make up with Alicia. Just then, Jared happens across the radiant Melissa as she's taking a peaceful stroll on the beach. What happens next is anyone's guess. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kimberly Estrada, Milan Tresnak, (more)
This long-delayed science fiction thriller from director Gary Fleder was actually filmed prior to his box-office hit Don't Say a Word (2001), which preceded it in theaters by several months. Based on a 1953 short story by Philip K. Dick, the film shares that schizophrenic author's long-running obsessions with concealed identity and humanity's potential inferiority to alternative life forms. Gary Sinise stars as Spencer John Olham, a respected government scientist in the year 2079 trying to devise a secret weapon that will help his fellow humans win a decade-long war with invading aliens that are cloning human subjects and using the replicas as walking time bombs. Suddenly, Olham is accused of being an alien spy and a nationwide manhunt to capture him ensues. With even his doctor wife (Madeleine Stowe) unsure that she can trust him, Olham must uncover the truth on his own, even as he's relentlessly pursued by Hathaway (Vincent D'Onofrio), a federal agent charged with destroying the clones. Imposter has a complicated history, originally produced in early 2000 as a 30-minute short to be included in an anthology entitled "The Light Years Trilogy," a project that never got off the ground. So impressed was Dimension Films with the completed piece, however, that the footage was incorporated into a new feature version. That film was then shuffled around the release schedule for more than a year as effects were completed, reshoots were ordered, and the film was recut for a PG-13 rating instead of its original R. The R-rated "director's cut" was later released on DVD. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, (more)
