Billy Campbell Movies
Billy Campbell debuted on film as a child star, scoring points with audiences as the Octopus Boy who gets between Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in Richard Curtis's box-office hit Love Actually, and with a small supporting role in director David Koepp's fantasy comedy Ghost Town. He is not to be confused with actor Bill Campbell of The Rocketeer and Once and Again, though that performer has also been occasionally credited as Billy. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
Christopher Lloyd has played a scientist before in the Back to the Future series, but in this end-of-the-world disaster film, the stakes are much higher. With the help of his young assistant (Marla Sokoloff, The Practice), Dr. Lehman (Lloyd) must stop an enormous meteor from striking Earth and killing everyone on the planet. However, the size of the meteor isn't Dr. Lehman's only problem; he must move past a government conspiracy and bureaucracy as the clock continues to tick out humanity's final moments. Meteor also stars Stacy Keach, Billy Campbell, Jason Alexander, and Michael Rooker. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jason Alexander, Billy Campbell, (more)
Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear star in director David Koepp's fantasy comedy concerning Bertram Pincus, a dentist who gains the ability to communicate with the dead after momentarily dying during a routine medical procedure. When the dearly departed begin requesting favors from Dr. Pincus, the self-absorbed dentist finds that living with ghosts isn't easy. Fortunately, recently deceased businessman Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) agrees to keep the dead at bay if Dr. Pincus will just agree to prevent his widow, Gwen (Téa Leoni), from tying the knot to humorless human rights lawyer Richard (Billy Campbell). According to Frank, Richard is just another morally corrupt gold-digger out to take the wealthy Gwen for all she's worth. At first Dr. Pincus agrees to go along with the ruse, though it isn't long before he begins to question his supernatural sidekick's true motivations. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, (more)
All of London is in love -- or longing to be -- in Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis' first directorial effort. Billed as "the ultimate romantic comedy," Love Actually involves more than a dozen main characters, each weaving his or her way into another's heart over the course of one particularly eventful Christmas. The seemingly perfect wedding of Juliet (Keira Knightley) and Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) brings many of the principals together, including heartsick best man Mark (Andrew Lincoln), who harbors a very unrequited crush on Juliet. There's also recent widower Daniel (Liam Neeson), trying to help his lonely stepson Sam (Thomas Sangster) express his true feelings to a classmate. Across town, devoted working mother Karen (Emma Thompson) tries to rekindle the passion of her husband, Harry (Alan Rickman), who secretly pines for a young colleague of his. In the same office, the lonely Sarah (Laura Linney) not-so-secretly pines for a man just a few desks away (Rodrigo Santoro), who returns her affections but may not be able to dissuade her neuroses. Providing the unofficial soundtrack for all of the couples is an aging rocker (Bill Nighy) who just wants to cash in and get laid -- but even he might find a meaningful relationship in the most unlikely of places. A working print of Love Actually premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, (more)
