Marc Buckland Movies
- 2005
Earl (Jason Lee) is the unkempt guy whom you always kept your distance from as he stood at the convenience store counter purchasing beer, cigarettes, and lottery tickets. A selfish and none-too-smart sort who doesn't think twice about stealing from his best friends and is rarely seen without his lazy brother Randy (Ethan Suplee), Earl goes on a weekend bender in Las Vegas only to discover upon sobering up that he is now married to pregnant blonde Joy (Jaime Pressly). Before Earl knows what's happening, Joy gives birth to a child that is clearly not his, and it begins to look as if the hapless ne'er-do-well has been roped into fathering two little monsters he didn't even help to conceive. One day, while purchasing his usual scratch-off ticket, Earl is ecstatic to discover that he has just won 100,000 dollars. But fate had other plans in store for Earl, because upon running into the street to celebrate a car promptly runs him over and the winning ticket blows away in the wind. Subsequently rushed to the nearest hospital and drugged up on painkillers, Earl is served divorce papers by Joy (who now plans to marry Crab Shack owner Darnell [Eddie Steeples]) and zones out to the television. Up on the tube, Carson Daly explains the cosmic workings of karma and Earl is soon inspired to turn his life around. Upon his release, Earl moves into a hotel with his brother Randy, who immediately takes a shine to pretty housekeeper Catalina (Nadine Velazquez). Now, Earl begins making a list of everything he has ever done wrong and everyone he has hurt in the process. In the spirit of good karma, Earl plans on righting every one of his past wrongs. The first order of business is to pay a visit to Kenny James (Gregg Binkley), the kid Earl used to torment back in school. Kenny is a timid boy who has grown into a lonely man, and if Earl can only find his old target a fitting partner, he can begin his walk down the path of redemption. Unfortunately Kenny has a secret that could prove too much for Earl to handle. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2005
Jason Lee, the former professional skateboarder who glided to movie fame with roles in such cult favorites as Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy, was the star of the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl. Lee, of course, played the title character, a small-town redneck and petty crook who wins 100,000 dollars in the local lottery. As he prepared to celebrate his good fortune, Earl was hit by a car, losing the lottery ticket in the process. Reviving from this double catastrophe, Earl awakened to see TV personality Carson Daly waxing poetic about "karma" on a talk show. Instantly, Earl experienced an epiphany, convincing himself that he could replicate his good luck of a few hours previous by helping out a deserving soul each week -- and, in so doing, he would make up for the many sins (258 by his own count!) that he had committed in his lifetime. Assisting Earl on his do-gooding mission was his brother, Randy (Ethan Suplee), while throwing the occasional roadblock in his path was Earl's trailer-trash former wife, Joy (Jaime Pressley). Created by Greg Garcia, the weekly, half-hour My Name Is Earl premiered September 20, 2005. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1999
Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) has been plagued with nightmares involving his own father and his sometimes colleague Sgt. Dornan (Richard Gant). Sorenson (Rick Schroder) must determine if the police officer who shot a drug dealer acted properly. Ex-cop Gotelli (Carmine Caridi) solicits the squad's help investigating a shady insurance client -- who promptly turns up dead. And as the episode hastens to its conclusion, there is the disturbing possibility that Sipowicz will fall off the wagon. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1999
While out for a drink, Dan (Josh Charles) strikes up a lively conversation with a woman named Abby Jacobs (Jayne Brook) who gives him her card before they part. Dan tells Casey (Peter Krause) about her the following day and shows him her card. Pointing out to Dan that Abby is a psychiatrist, Casey asks if he's called her to set up a date or an appointment, leaving Dan in a bit of confusion as he rethinks the scenario. Jeremy (Joshua Malina) announces that he has fixed the Y2K bug and suggests that a test be run to prove it. Skeptical of Jeremy's "fix," Dana (Felicity Huffman) concedes to the test, which goes horribly wrong and leaves the studio without power. Dana starts moving the show upstairs to an inferior studio as Jeremy scrambles to bring the studio back online. Later, Dan meets Abby at her office and proceeds to inadvertently have a session with her. Back in the studio, Jeremy learns that some of the control boards had been rewired earlier and were left unlabeled, thereby absolving him of guilt and responsibility for the blackout. Power is restored with minutes to spare before the show goes live. ~ Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide
- 1999
A popularity poll has been posted on the Sports Night website asking viewers who they think is more cool, Casey (Peter Krause) or Dan (Josh Charles). After checking in on the current figures, Dan accuses Casey of somehow cheating and lying about not caring about the vote's outcome. Denying the accusations, Casey then leaves their office and recruits Jeremy (Joshua Malina) into assisting him with cheating on the poll -- which he was guilty of doing all along -- by writing a program that will enter votes by the thousands. While working on the program for Casey, Jeremy discovers Natalie's (Sabrina Lloyd) half-finished letter to Jeremy's sister Louise and gets a little freaked out. Meanwhile, Dana (Felicity Huffman) reschedules the 8:00 rundown meeting to 7:30 because of a dinner engagement with an old friend, which irritates Casey since he's still in the middle of the six-month delay of his first date with Dana -- which she herself instituted. While at dinner, Dana removes her underwear from under her dress in a moment of boredom and tells Natalie about it when she returns to the studio. Natalie tells Casey the bizarre tale and Casey becomes a little jealous and quite obsessed with the thought -- so much so that he messes up his next few segments on air, prompting yet another confrontation between Casey and Dana. ~ Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide
- 1999
President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) is furious about a plane carrying his personal physician being downed in the Middle East. After initially requesting a retaliatory attack that would kill a great many people, Bartlet's military advisors try to convince him to take a more cautionary maneuver. Journalist Danny Concannon (Timothy Busfield) questions Press Secretary C.J. Cregg (Allison Janney) about Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) having a relationship with a high-priced call girl. Having heard nothing about it, she confronts Sam about the issue and berates him for keeping her uninformed about such a dangerous political situation. Josh Lymon (Bradley Whitford) hires Charlie Young (Dulé Hill) to be the personal aide to the president. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 1999
Due to a tennis match running very late, the Sports Night show has been put on hold pending the match's conclusion. For Dana (Felicity Huffman), this holds greater significance as she is supposed to meet Gordon (Ted McGinley) later in the evening -- after the show was supposed to air. Dan (Josh Charles), in the meantime, begins to sense that Casey (Peter Krause) is aggravated over something, but Casey refuses to come clean. Soon Dan is working on his own problems when Rebecca (Teri Polo) -- while waiting in Dan's office -- takes a call from a woman that Dan had supposedly broken up with some time ago. When Gordon shows up, he learns the show hasn't even started yet and promptly issues Dana an ultimatum: Hand the show off to someone else or the relationship is over. As Casey sees Gordon being introduced to Sally by Dana, he shuts the office door and reveals his knowledge of Gordon's affair with Sally to Dan -- and that he is powerless to do anything about it, since Dana would also learn of Casey's dalliance with Sally in the process. ~ Ryan Shriver, All Movie Guide
- 1999
Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), Costas (Sharon Lawrence), and Dornan (Richard Gant) close in on the murderer who framed Suarez -- and who is dying of leukemia. A case involving retired cops who appear to have gone bad results in friction between the squad, the Internal Affairs Bureau, and the FBI. Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) worries that he might get in trouble for accepting a gift of free Chinese food. And the still-grieving Diane (Kim Delaney) meets the wife of the man whose heart was donated to the late Bobby Simone. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
