Daniel Hirsch Movies
- 1989
- R
Standard plotline 294-B is deployed for this direct-to-video martial arts film. The ball starts rolling when a dedicated crime fighter is killed. His sister, played by Peggie Sanders, swears vengeance. Her brother's murderers laugh it off, since Sanders is locked up in prison, but they don't know her very well, do they? Tony Josephs and Jacolyn Leeman also make appearances in this fill-in-the-blanks actioner. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peggy Sanders, Tony Josephs, (more)
- 1988
When Claire (Linda Kozlowski) learns her grandmother has been bilked out of $50,000 by the crooked televangelists Ray (Tim Curry) and Darla Porter (Annie Potts), she recruits her redneck boyfriend Jesse (Bill Paxton) to help recover the money. They travel to the Tower of Bethlehem deep in the Arkansas woods to break into the studio and hold the hosts of the show hostage. This timely comedy came in the wake of scandals involving real-life televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and Jimmy "I Have Sinned" Swaggert. Neil Cohen and Joel Cohen wrote the screenplay. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bill Paxton, Linda Kozlowski, (more)
In a well-wrought sex comedy with one foot in the feminist camp and another on a banana peel, Casey Meadows (Deborah Foreman in an excellent performance) defies social custom when she gets a job as a limo driver. The manager of the Brentwood Limousine Company, McBride (Howard Hesseman), and her co-workers give her both a hard time and some of the worst fares possible. She is eventually assigned to chauffeur an overworked executive (Sam Jones) who just broke up with his girlfriend. After drowning his sorrows in the back seat of the limo, the ingrate wakes up in Casey's bed the morning after, refusing to believe he had anything to do with her. Their antagonistic relationship is stressed all the more when she has to drive him on a vacation and the car breaks down. What Casey does not know is that she has not been given the complete scoop on her passenger. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Deborah Foreman, Sam Jones, (more)
When friends Larry (Tom Shell), Steve (Daniel Hirsch), and Rip (Jared Moses) decide to celebrate their survival game victory by heading out to the California backwoods to camp and party, they accidentally stumble across the hideout of a group of murderers. With the sinister killers on their trail, the group must fight to stay alive in a real game of survival. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daniel Hirsch, Kelli Maroney, (more)
- 1984
Beleaguered by choppy editing and potholes in the script, this story is about the bond that develops between an aging, former railroad worker living in an abandoned theater and Willie, the wayward, alcoholic architect he shelters (Elliot Gould). The flaws in the script and story development, and the architect's exaggerated character traits, work against the concept of a growing friendship between the two men and leave the main thrust of the film in limbo. A subplot has a gang of street thugs chasing Willie all over the city in order to retrieve some photos of a murder he accidentally recorded. At the same time, Willie is trying to reconcile with his son, left in the care of his neglected wife. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elliott Gould, Heinz Moog, (more)
Daniel Hirsch, Clayton Norcross and Frank Schultz play three American college students vacationing in Greece. As these things are wont to happen in the movies, the boys come into possession of a valuable videotape. The cassette contains several Soviet top secrets, and there are those who'd kill to lay their hands on them. Our heroes don't know where to turn, inasmuch as they've been targetted by assassins from both the KGB and the CIA. The story is nothing new, but the Greek scenery is awe-inspiring. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Daniel Hirsch, Clayton Norcross, (more)
