Ben Ziff Movies
Relocated to Colorado in the wake his parents' messy divorce, seventeen year old California transplant Robbie Zirpollo lands a job at a local water park while attempting to find his footing on dry land in this sexy, sun-soaked comedy featuring Alan Thicke and Lindsay Wagner. Robbie grew up in Oceanside, but when his father runs off to Mexico with the secretary and the family savings, his mother decides to move to Colorado and make a fresh start. Later offered a summer job tending the grounds at Water World by his uncle, Robbie accepts and strikes up a friendship with amiable park employee Alex, who soon gets him transferred to Aokee's Surf and Snack shack. When Alex discovers Robbie is a naturally born surfer, he quickly sets about trying to convince the wave-twisting newcomer to enter the park's annual Employee Olympics. But while Alex longs to see the Surfer King trophy back in its rightful place behind the concessions stand, the park owner's daughter has a decidedly different agenda in mind for Robbie. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Randy Wayne, Keri Lynn Pratt, (more)
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, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mika Boorem, Jennifer Tilly, (more)
- 2003
Abby (Maura Tierney) has just about reached the end of her rope: Her biploar brother, Eric, has vanished, and her bipolar mother Maggie (Sally Field) has come back into her life. As Carter (Noah Wyle) tries to help Abby cope with her many burdens, a shaken and humbled Kovac (Goran Visnjic) returns to the ER -- albeit only after receiving an ultimatum from Weaver (Laura Innes). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2000
Here's the "High School" episode, wherein the series' stars flash back to their teenage years (complete with bad hair and worse outfits). Humiliated over being redued to working in the cafeteria of his former high school, Drew (Drew Carey) can't quite figure out how he came to be such a miserable failure. Rallying around our hero in his hour of need, Oswald (Diedrich Bader), Lewis (Ryan Stiles) and Kate (Christa Miller) each insists that he or she is responsible for Drew's sorry lot in life, thanks to miscalculations and blunders made in the past. It's a noble gesture, but in the final analysis Drew must admit the awful truth: He has messed up his life simply by being a "pity whore"! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
