Tammy Lauren Movies
- 2003
To find Drew (Drew Carey) a wife, the guys paste his picture and phone number on several bottles of Buzz Beer. The strategy works, and before long Drew has been summoned to New Orleans by a matrimony-minded Southern belle named Lily (Tammy Lauren). Upon meeting his prospective bride, Drew is instantly smitten--but he doesn't cotton to the notion of leaving Cleveland and moving to Louisiana permanently. The setting for this story is a lavish Southern mansion, which can be the only logical explanation for the closing "Civil War" gag featuring Lewis (Ryan Stiles) and Oswald (Diedrich Bader) in Rhett-and-Scarlett costumes. This episode originally aired back-to-back with "What Screams May Come". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
Lily (Tammy Lauren) accepts Drew's marriage proposal, just in time for the wedding that Drew (Drew Carey) arranged long before he'd found a wife. But things take an ominous turn when Lily's mother (Jan Devereaux) forbids any member of her family to attend the ceremony; and meanwhile, Kellie (Cynthia Watros) is having a much tougher time than usual suppressing her own feelings toward Drew. Meanwhile, Mr. Wick (Craig Ferguson) resurfaces from obscurity as "Scotty McRaincloud", a born-again Christian weatherman. This episode was originally telecast in tandem with "Love Is in the Air" as the finale of The Drew Carey Show's eighth season. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
Having risen to national acclaim by virtue of her writing and acting contributions to such series as The Chris Rock Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm, profanely outspoken comedienne Wanda Sykes was awarded her own Fox network sitcom. The star was cast as Wanda Hawkins, a single government worker living in Washington, D.C. After fearlessly trashing a popular TV anchorman at a party, Wanda is hired by TV station manager Roger (Jason Kravitz) to appear regularly as the house gadfly on the weekly political-comment series "The Beltway Gang." Naturally, Wanda's unbridled stream of gab (which according to Fox publicity was largely ad-libbed) did not rest well with the series' official co-hosts, conservative Bradley (Phil Morris) and liberal Rita (Ann Magnuson). Withheld from public view while an abortive pilot episode was completely refilmed and recast, Wanda at Large premiered March 26, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
Before accepting any marriage proposal, Lily (Tammy Lauren) insists upon knowing the "real" Drew (Drew Carey). Thus, our hero drops his gentlemanly façade and reveals the awful truth--porn collection, flatulence and all. This doesn't bother Lily, but she is still upset at the notion that Drew merely wants to marry her merely because he's already plunked down $3000 to book the chapel. Can our hero persuade Lily to accept his offer with the help of a "coming attractions" video featuring some familiar participants? Elsewhere, Mimi (Kathy Kinney) tries to arrange a date between Kellie (Cynthia Watros) and Mr. Donahue (Pat Finn), headmaster of an exclusive prep school in which she wants to enroll baby Gus; and Lewis (Ryan Stiles) and Oswald (Diedrich Bader) make a game effort to market "Beer-sicles". This episode was originally telecast in tandem with the Season Eight finale "The Bataan Wedding March". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 2003
With Drew's prospective Southern-belle bride Lily (Tammy Lauren) in tow, the gang returns to Cleveland from New Orleans (all except Lewis [Ryan Stiles], who's been arrested for getting an alligator drunk). During their first night together, Drew (Drew Carey) learns to his dismay that Lily suffers from "night terrors", screaming, punching and kicking until the crack of dawn. Of course, Lily is unaware of the abuse she is piling upon Drew, and he's afraid to tell her lest she break off the relationship. As a means of subduing Lily during her nightmares, Oswald (Diedrich Bader) suggests handcuffs--and when Lily awakens to find a bruised and battered Drew holding a pair of cuffs in his hands, just guess what conclusion she jumps to! This episode originally aired in tandem with "Drew Answers the Belle". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1998
Hong Kong action-movie superstar Sammo Hung keeps the kicks flying in this TV action farce about a Chinese lawman (Hung) brought to Los Angeles to join forces with detective Louis McGray (Louis Mandylor) and detective Dana Doyle (Tammy Lauren). It's not long before this trio has the bad guys on the run. Filmed in Van Nuys, this series premiered September 16, 1998 on CBS. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sammo Hung, Tammy Lauren, (more)
- 1997
- R
An evil genie, the Djinn (Andrew Divoff), escapes from an ancient statue and wreaks havoc in this horror film from director Robert Kurtzman. The devious Djinn can regain human form permanently if he grants someone three wishes. The Djinn at first is trapped in a statue, which falls and cracks open when a drunken worker unloads it from a ship. The genie is inside a precious gem that a puzzled pawnbroker gives to university gemologist Josh (Tony Crane). The Djinn kills Josh, and Josh's friend and colleague Alexandra Amberson (Tammy Lauren), who had been resisting Josh's romantic advances, sets out to find the killer. She follows a trail of carnage, and she soon learns the truth about the genie from anthropologist Wendy Derleth (Jenny O'Hara). The Djinn presents itself to Alexandra, who resists his seductive offers to grant wishes, but then the fiend sets his sights on Shannon (Wendy Benson), Alexandra's younger sister. The genie makes his final stand to grant a third wish at a party where antiquities collector Anthony Beaumont (Robert Englund) is displaying the statue. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tammy Lauren, Andrew Divoff, (more)
A blend of screwball farce and whodunit murder mystery, this madcap period piece was the brainchild of executive producer George Lucas. In 1939, Penny Henderson (Mary Stuart Masterson) is the harried general secretary and de facto manager of a new fourth radio network, WBN. On the night that the Chicago station goes live on the air, a mysterious voice interrupts, and a series of murders soon follows, each one described by the same sonorous phantom. While Penny and her staff desperately try to keep WBN's roster of shows afloat during the unfolding crisis, her estranged husband Roger (Brian Benben), a staff writer, becomes the chief suspect. Roger is forced to dodge a detective, Lieutenant Cross (Michael Lerner), find the real killer, win Penny back, and perform last-minute script rewrites for an unhappy sponsor. As the backstage hysteria reaches a fever pitch, the show goes on with real-life radio-era pros such as George Burns and Rosemary Clooney. Although never explicitly pointed out in the film, Radioland Murders (1994) was a pseudo-prequel to an earlier Lucas feature -- Roger and Penny are the future parents of Curt Henderson (Richard Dreyfuss) from American Graffiti (1973). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brian Benben, Mary Stuart Masterson, (more)
- 1992
In this made-for-cable actioner a good-hearted social worker embarks upon a one-man crusade to save Miami teens from getting further involved with a gang of crack dealers. The social worker does this in large part to ease his own guilt at having been responsible for the death of his own son back when he was drinking heavily. To save the teen, he pretends to be a dealer and infiltrates the gang. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Friends in Georgia are broken up when an enticing teenager comes between them as told in this true story. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1988
A telephone prank by 2 teenagers leads to their stalking by a psychotic killer, the person who answered the prank call. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1988
In this thriller, city slickers chuck their careers, pull up stakes and take up residence at a peaceful lakeside community to escape the urban rat race. Unfortunately, they soon discover that things are not as peaceful as they seem when the husband finds a mutilated corpse floating in the lake. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Valerie Harper, Gerald McRaney, (more)
- 1987
A 300-year-old ghost looks for a bride in this Disney comedy. While searching, he mischievously disrupts the festivities of the New England town in which he lives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1987
This film takes place in that strange bastion of middle-class living, Stepford, CT. The trouble begins when a former resident returns with his new family and forces them to become as strangely contented as their neighbors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Barbara Eden, Don Murray, (more)
- 1985
In this prison drama, two adolescent girls are incarcerated with adults by an obsessive judge. There they are terribly exploited and abused. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1985
In this drama, a disturbed teenager turns to arson in order to vent his anger and frustration over his parent's upcoming divorce. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1983
Mariette Hartley portrays Candy Lightner, the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, in this made-for-television movie produced and written by Michael Braverman. After her daughter is killed by a drunk driver in a hit-and-run accident, Lightner forms M.A.D.D. to enact legislation curbing the spread of alcohol-related driving. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mariette Hartley, Paula Prentiss, (more)
- 1982
Gary Coleman stars as a teen-age angel who must return to Earth to help out three troubled families in order to earn his wings. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
- 1980
- G
Even animal lovers may balk at this light, light drama about how a missionary (Genevieve Bujold) and Bobby (Rick Schroder), a young boy manage to populate a deserving island with critters of all types. Noah Dugan (Elliott Gould) is a pilot in need of escaping his creditors and he agrees to fly the animals to their destination. Bobby and the missionary sneak on board and the plane crash-lands on another island on which two Japanese soldiers are still fighting World War II. The story veers ever more into fantasy as the Japanese and the pilot join together to make a boat out of the plane with the goal of taking every animal with them into uncharted waters. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, (more)
- 1980
Quincy (Jack Klugman) frantically searches for a source when three people die of food poisoning. Ulitmately, he connects the three fatalities to a stadium where a championsihp football game is to be played in three days. Racing against the clock and cutting a swath through a tangle of bureaucracy, Quincy must prevent a deadly epidemic from infecting some 90,000 football fans. Diana Muldaur makes her first series appearance as Quincy's new lady friend, Dr. Janet Carlyle. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
