Cynthia Mace Movies

It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Although, at first, there is little love lost between the somewhat aloof Nielsen and her more down-to-earth colleagues, a strong bond develops among them as the extreme Antarctic winter progresses. Nielsen, in particular, grows quite close to two of the "Polies": Big John Penny (Aidan Devine) and Claire Furinski (Cynthia Mace). It is Big John to whom Nielsen confides that she has discovered a lump in her breast, which, with the e-mailed assistance of her fellow physicians back in the States, she diagnoses as a cancerous growth. After a self-administered biopsy, Nielsen and her new friends construct a crude chemotherapy unit to treat her ever-growing cancer. Supplies are periodically air-dropped by the Air Force and both Big John and Claire are given a crash course in the treatment of Nielsen's affliction; but will she be able to survive her ordeal until the rescue party arrives? Inspired by a true story, as written by Nielsen herself in a best-selling autobiography, Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole was filmed on location near Ontario's frozen Lake Simone. This made-for-TV production originally aired April 20, 2003, on CBS. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

11-year-old Cory Mathews (Ben Savage) does his best to survive life in junior high school--and Life, period!--in Episode One of Boy Meets World). No sooner have the opening credits faded than Cory has gotten a detention from his acid-tongued teacher Mr. Feeny (William Daniels) for listening to a baseball game during a discussion of "Romeo and Juliet." Turns out our hero could have benefited from the example of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers when he must handle the other big crisis of the week, which begins when his older brother Eric (Will Friedle) scores a couple of tickets for a Phillies game--but instead of taking Cory along, he invites his latest girlfriend. This is the only episode in which the recurring character played by Lee Norris (who otherwise does not appear) is called Stuart Lemple, a name soon altered to "Stuart Minkus" for legal reasons. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Upon learning that a beloved old vaudeville-movie theater is slated for demolition, Bull (Richard Moll) lodges a protest by shackling himself to the theater's door. It turns out that both Harry (Harry Anderson) and Mac (Charlie Robinson) also have a vested interest in the theater's survival. For Harry, the old buidling harbors many pleasant entertainment memories of his youth. And as for Mac, he puts forth the startling revelation that he made his singing debut at the theater as a member of a teenage R&B group called the Starlites! Watch for veteran kiddie-show host and cartoon voiceover specialist Vance Colvig as a derelict. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide