Sam Jenkins Movies

In the conclusion of a three-part story, Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) has given up his super-strength so he can marry Serena (Sam Jenkins), a demigod who has likewise relinquished her immortality. Meanwhile, war god Ares (Kevin Smith) and his nephew, Strife (Joel Tobeck), step up their efforts to destroy Hercules -- beginning with the murder of Serena. Accused of the crime, Hercules is targeted by a lynch mob. Will his loyal friends (including Xena the Warrior Princess Lucy Lawless) be able to rescue Hercules in time -- and will he ever regain his godlike strength? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In the first episode of a three-part story, Prince Nestor (Steve Hall) schemes to kill Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) with an arrow dipped in the blood of the Golden Hind, a half-woman, half-deer who also goes by the name of the demigod Serena (Sam Jenkins). Nestor also intends to increase his power by appropriating the Hind's horns and hooves. War god Ares (Kevin Smith) conspires to aid Nestor in his sinister mission -- but unexpected circumstances alter the outcome. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This melodrama explores class differences, bigotry, and alternative lifestyles aboard a pleasure cruise that is anything but. The five main characters all eagerly anticipate their upcoming cruise through the Bahamas on a small yacht. The hero, Bill, still devastated by his alcoholic mother's suicide, is accompanying his wife Jennifer. Her brother Phillip, an anal-retentive and bigoted lawyer, owns the yacht. Included on the trip are Alex, a rock musician and his date Catherine who possesses a secret. Their smooth sailing is disrupted when they are boarded by two passengers whose boat met with disaster. The first, Tim, is a man who recently had a sex-change. The second is Camilla, a South American whom he is sneaking into the U.S. so he can pay for his operation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Blood, sweat, and betrayal in the South East Asian jungles is what drives this action thriller about sleazy Canadian diplomat Carl Pimmler (Michael Ironside), who sends Peter Kernan (Matt Salinger) and his wife Johanna (Sam Jenkins) into deepest, darkest Cambodia to deliver "medicine." When the two realize the true nature of the items they are toting, they struggle to flee for their lives. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

David generally works as a free-lance news photographer. If his photos have blood or more than a hint of violence in them, they sell better. Somehow, he gets a fashion photo job with a foreign company looking to sell high-class clothing and cosmetics in an advertising blitz. For the photos he shows his bosses, he uses tame, safe, glossy stuff, exactly like the pictures everyone else shoots. Once he gets their approval for a big-bucks ad campaign, instead of shipping out the safe negatives to be inserted in ad spaces on billboards and magazines, he ships out some negatives drenched with the same aura of violence that informed his news photos. Just as he imagined they would, the gritty newsroom-type photos make a big, big splash for the company's products, and he has become very successful. Unfortunately, his way to the top was just a little bit too devious and dishonest for his girlfriend, and now his whole reason for becoming successful in the first place has been taken away from him. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Brian De Palma's Hollywood sanitization of Tom Wolfe's scabrous satire stars Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, the "master of the universe," a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), a Southern belle golddigger. Sherman and Maria are driving back to Maria's apartment from the airport when Maria takes a wrong turn on the expressway and the two find themselves in the South Bronx. She sees a black youth approaching Sherman's car and Maria, frightened, guns the engine, running over the teenager and killing him. The two drive away and decide not to report the accident to the police. Meanwhile, indigent alcoholic journalist Peter Fallow (Bruce Willis), anxious for a story to make good with his editor, comes upon the hit-and-run tale through local black community activist, Reverend Bacon (John Hancock). Bacon plans to use the hit-and-run case as a rallying point for the black community, while Fallow recognizes the press coverage inherent in prosecuting the callow Sherman. As Sherman is brought to his knees, the New York community fragments into different factions who use the case to suit their own cynical political purposes. Finally, Sherman is left without any allies to support him except for the sympathetic Judge White (Morgan Freeman) and the remorseful Fallow. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide