Stephanie Sawyer Movies

Many a lovesick young man has threatened to camp out by a girl's front door, but one guy actually tries it in this alternately sweet and tasteless romantic comedy. Peter (Josh Schaefer) is a good-natured but socially inept young man who is madly in love with Erica (Keri Russell), the sweet and devastatingly sexy girl next door. Peter desperately wants Erica as his girlfriend, even though she already has a boyfriend, the large and humorless Nick (Johnny Green). Eager to prove himself, Peter takes up the advice of Nonno (Buck Kartalian), his batty grandfather, and literally camps out on her front lawn, willing to wait out the entire summer until she gives him a chance to prove that he can be the man of her dreams. Meanwhile, Peter is frequently kept company by his buddy Matt (R.D. Robb), who has learned how to deal with his sexual tensions through the use of fresh fruit, while Peter's dad (Mark Taylor) is convinced that his son has gone nuts and won't allow him back in the house, even for a change of clothes. While it won the Audience Award at the 1997 Slamdance Film Festival, Eight Days a Week didn't receive much commercial exposure until its release on video, after Keri Russell had made a splash on the acclaimed TV series Felicity. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

In a savage spoof of the "Barney the Dinosaur" craze, Will (Will Smith) takes little Nicky (Ross Bagley) to a kids' concert so the youngster can meet his TV idol, Dougie the Whale. Unfortunately, the costumed actor (Monty Hoffman) playing Dougie is a surly jerk who hasn't exactly got a handle on the characters' perennially sunny, optimistic disposition. Confronting "Dougie" for his bad attitude, Will ends up punching the actor...thereby becoming "persona non grata" so far as Nicky is concerned. Meanwhile, it is Hilary (Karyn Parsons) vs. Leeza Gibbons over a highly coveted parking space. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide