Liza Snyder Movies
- 2000
Two couples share a home but not much else as they try to deal with the trials of parenthood in this half-hour situation comedy. Nerdy white-collar worker Greg Warner (Anthony Clark) and his wife Kim (Jean Louisa Kelly) are first-time parents learning to deal with the responsibilities of a new baby. While they get plenty of advice, they're not sure how much of it they should follow. They're sharing a home with Christine (Liza Snyder), Kim's sister, and her unemployed lout of a husband Jimmy (Mike O'Malley), who seem to think the best solution to any crisis is to park their two kids in front of the television and hope they forget what's bothering them. Yes, Dear debuted on the CBS television network on October 3, 2000. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anthony Clark, Jean Louisa Kelly, (more)
- 1996
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Telemovie mainstays Richard Crenna and Patty Duke (who co-starred in the 1982 sitcom It Takes Two) reteamed for this 1996 prime-time docudrama. Crenna is John Porter, a husband and father whose emotional isolation from his wife (Duke) and children springs from his own ingrained fear of mortality. When the Porters' twentysomething daughter, Sarah, is kidnapped, crisis pulls the family together in a desperate attempt to find the young woman before time runs out. It also forces John to overcome his fear of intimacy and connection, by reaching out to his family at an intensely difficult time. This feature, unsurprisingly, was based on a true story. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Richard Crenna, Patty Duke, (more)
The cautionary phrase "It could happen to you!" was seldom more appropriate than in this two-part, four-hour TV movie, inspired by a true story and based on actual court transcripts. The story begins in Fayetteville, NC in 1985, when Army sergeant Tim Hennis (John Corbett) is accused of murdering the wife and children of an Air Force captain. A combination of overzealous prosecution from the District Attorney's office and pressure from the armed forces and the media makes a swift conviction a fait accompli, though Hennis and his family continue to protest his innocence. Refusing to give up on the case, Hennis' defense team presses its own investigation, ultimately turning up a maelstrom of hitherto unknown evidence, surprise rebuttal witnesses, and a startling eyewitness testimony. First telecast by ABC, Innocent Victims was originally shown on January 21 and 22, 1996. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hal Holbrook, Rue McClanahan, (more)
- 1994
Racketeer Paul Avensino (Tony LoBianco) buys a controlling interest in a popular restaurant, but he finds that he exercises no control over the establishment's egotistical chef Bernard Bonelli (John Saxon). Shortly after a confrontation between the two men, Bonelli is murdered--and lest anyone suspect Avensino of the crime, he turns up dead as well. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) becomes involved in the case when her friend Lorna (Heidi Swedberg), host of a TV cooking show, is charged with one of the murders. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
