Daniel Berendsen Movies

Hannah Montana: The Movie opens with Hannah's ($Miley Cyrus) hectic lifestyle wrecking the important relationships in her life. Because she gets into a catfight over shoes with Tyra Banks, she forgets to say goodbye when her brother leaves for college, and she's late for her best friend's sweet sixteen because she's being chased by the paparazzi. Anxious to get Miley back to her roots, her manager/father (Billy Ray Cyrus), whisks her away to their hometown in Tennessee, where he hopes grandma and the locals will help the selfish star reconnect to some simple family values. Since Miley wants to be Hannah most of the time, she hates being stuck in the backwoods town, but a cute young ranch hand -- and her grandmother's love -- eventually melts her heart. And, when the town needs to raise cash to stop a developer from soiling their perfect little community with a big, evil mall, what celebrity performer do you think might just show up to save the day? ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

The Cheetah Girls have been cast in a high-profile Bollywood musical, and now the trio that rocked the U.S. and grooved through Spain are about to get another eye-opening cultural experience as they set their sights on India. They've got the songs to keep India dancing, and the moves needed to make an impression on the big screen, and it's beginning to look like this unique opportunity could be precisely the big break that the Cheetah Girls' have been hoping for. Their future as a group is thrown into question, however, when Chanel (Adrienne Bailon), Aqua (Kiely Williams), and Dorinda (Sabrina Bryan) discover that they'll be in direct competition with one another to win the starring role. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

In this sequel to the enchanting Disney Channel original movie Twitches, the twin daughters of Aron attempt to ensure that the forces of darkness have truly been defeated. The Kingdom of Coventry has been locked in battle against the forces of darkness for over two decades. Now, just as it begins to appear as if the powers of light are about to be snuffed out by the surrounding shadows, the twin daughters of Aron suddenly re-appear in the land of their birth - just as the prophecies foretold. Could it be that these magical twin sisters are in fact the heroes prophesized to return to Coventry and deliver the land from an evil powerful enough to consume anything in its path? ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A pretty college student with mysterious supernatural powers become caught up in an ancient battle between good and evil in the ABC Family Original Movie remake of the 1978 cult classic. Sarah (Mika Boorem) and her twin sister Lindsey (Summer Glau) have always been at odds over Sarah's unexplainable telekinetic powers, but now that the two siblings have enrolled in Temple Hill University they're determined to focus on the future and forget about the past. While at first college life is everything that Sarah and Lindsey ever hoped it would be, their higher education soon grows complicated when both sisters are invited to pledge Alpha Nu Gamma and Pi Epsilon Delta: Temple Hill's oldest and most bitter rivals. Now, before they even take their first midterms, Sarah and Lindsey will be thrust into an ancient battle between good and evil that threatens to consume the entire campus. As the ongoing battle between darkness and light stretches into another semester, Sarah will struggle to master her powers and one sister will be faced with the most difficult decision of her life. Betrayal abounds and danger awaits on the dreaded campus of Temple Hill University. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Separated at birth and never told about their identical twin sisters, two confused witches discover the secrets of their magical past upon being reunited on their twenty-first birthdays in a Disney Channel original movie starring Sister, Sister's Tia and Tamara Towry. Adapted from the best-selling series of children's books, Twitches tells the tale of two reunited sisters who set about discovering the true potential of their powers while battling the dreaded force of Darkness in a bid to save the enchanted land of Coventry in which they were born. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Less lurid than its title suggests, this made-for-TV movie was based on the true story of the trials and tribulations of three generations of New Orleans prostitutes. Ellen Burstyn stars as Tommie, matriarch of the "working girl" family which operates out of a brothel in an otherwise quiet, respectable neighborhood. Tommie is the domineering boss of her daughter Jeanette (Annabella Sciorra), who had followed in mom's footsteps (so to speak) because she had no alternative. Conversely, Jeannette's daughter Monica (Dominique Swain) is showing signs of rebellion, hoping to break free from her grandmother's grasp for the sake of her own daughter Navaeh. The family's internal squabbles are played against a backdrop of federal intrigue, as the FBI works overtime to nail Tommie and her family on charges of racketeering and drug trafficking. But just when it looks like the jig is up thanks to the testimony of a local doctor, Tommie saves herself by threatening to reveal a few unsavory secrets about a few highly placed male individuals. The real-life Jeannette Maier acted as the film's technical advisor, insisting in press releases that she and her mother ran a "clean, tight, business" and that the FBI's charges were so much applesauce (it is clear where the filmmakers' sympathies lie in those scenes wherein the Feds are shown wiretapping the ladies' business when they should be concentrating on capturing the terrorist perpetrators of 9/11). The Madam's Family debuted October 31, 2004 on CBS. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Fourteen-year-old Eddie Ogden (Taylor Ball) is the best player on his baseball team. He also happens to be a natural-born chef, and it is this peculiar talent that opens him up for ridicule, not only from his fellow players, but also from the team's coach, who happens to be Eddie's father (Mark L. Taylor). After enduring such jibes as "Will he trade his baseball mitt for an oven mitt," poor Eddie is in for even more verbal abuse when he enters a prestigious cooking contest -- on the same day as the championship ballgame. Our hero's story is paralleled with that of a young girl who is being forced by her mother to try out for the cheerleading squad, even though the girl would rather play baseball. Real-life master chef Bobby Flay appears as himself in the New Zealand-filmed Eddie's Million-Dollar Cookoff, which made its Disney Channel debut on July 18, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Like most teenagers, 14-year-old Scott Marshall (Michael J. Pagan) feels like a misfit "freak" within his own family. In this instance, however, circumstances are a bit different. Practically every member of the Marshall family possesses super-powers and leads a double life as a costumed hero. His dad, Jim (Robert Townsend, who also directed this film), is an orthodontist by day and the crime-busting Bronze Eagle by night. Even Grandpa Marshall (Sherman Hemsley), now in retirement, can recall the good old days when he battled the forces of evil as the Steel Condor. Alas, poor Scott possesses none of his parents' or his siblings' special powers -- in fact, he's so clumsy that he is in danger of being washed out of his school's soccer team. But Scott eventually proves that there's more to heroics than mere muscle power when he's called upon to rescue his family from a gang of techno-villains. Up, Up and Away made its Disney Channel cable TV bow on January 22, 2000. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi