Spencer Klein

Everyone's favorite football-headed city kid graduates from television to the big screen in this animated comedy-adventure based on the Nickelodeon TV series. Arnold (voice of Spencer Klein) and his good friend, Gerald (voice of Jamil Walker Smith), live in a tight-knit neighborhood in the middle of a big city. Like most of their neighbors, Arnold and Gerald love their community, and when they learn that Scheck (voice of Paul Sorvino), a wealthy and powerful developer, plans to buy up their neighborhood, tear down the buildings, and put up a massive shopping mall in its place, they decide something has to be done. While the adults come up with a dodgy scheme to blow up the streets in their neighborhood, Arnold and Gerald hatch a more practical scheme, with the help of Helga (voice of Francesca Marie Smith), who can't decide if she likes Arnold or hates his guts. Arnold and Gerald learn that their neighborhood was designated a historical landmark years ago, but can they prove it before Scheck moves in with his bulldozers? Hey Arnold! The Movie also features the voice talents of Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Lloyd, and Dan Castellaneta. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

After a four-year absence, Spencer Klein returns in the role of Ryan Stemple, the son of Jamie's friend Fran (Leila Kenzle). In her efforts to compliment Ryan's violin virtuosity, Jamie (Helen Hunt) puts her politically incorrect foot into her politically incorrect mouth. On another front, Paul (Paul Reiser) plans to haggle with the Buchmans' therapist over some rather exorbitant fees. Jeff Garlin makes his first series appearance as Marvin, general factotum to Paul's cousin Ira (John Pankow). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Valentine's Day is no holiday when Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) find themselves trapped in their own bathroom. Boredom leads the Buchmans to paint each other's toenails, while hunger prods them to down a whole bottle of Tums antacid tablets. And little Ryan Devanow (Spencer Klein) may be many things, but Cupid he's not. Fans familiar with Helen Hunt's previous TV-series work will enjoy the reference to "The Swiss Family Buchmans." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Jason Alexander stars in this sweet-natured romantic comedy, marred by some overblown stereotypes. Alexander plays shoe salesman Bernie Fishbine. Bernie is lonely and shy and ever conscious about his weight problem. He stills lives at home with his mother Sarah (Lainie Kazan) and grandpa Irving Fein (Lou Jacobi). One night, taking a bus back home, he meets Theresa Garabaldi (Nia Peeples), an attractive graduate student in psychology who works at night as a singer in her uncle's Italian restaurant. Bernie falls in love with her, and he thinks she loves him too. To make her proud of him, Bernie stops eating the chocolate kisses he purchases every day from Frieda's (Eileen Brennan) candy store and, instead, works out at a gym to lose weight. But Bernie is crestfallen to learn that Theresa is being friendly to him because she is using him as the subject of her graduate thesis entitled "The Psychological Study of an Obese Male." ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Over the river and through the woods go the Buchmans and their friends to spend Thanksgiving in Connecticut with Jamie's parents. Before embarking upon their holiday train ride, Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) are getting along splendidly, Fran and Mark Devanow (Leila Kenzle, Richard Kind) are not, and Jamie's sister Lisa (Anne Ramsay) and Jay Selby (Tommy Hinkley) haven't yet determined what they really think of one another. All this has changed by the time the above-mentioned characters return to New York -- and remember, there's always room for Jello, especially when delivered by FedEx. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide