Shana Hiatt Movies
Can the world's oldest adolescent maintain his cool while living with his grandmother? Alex (Allen Covert) is a 35-year-old video-game fanatic who gave up a career in accounting to take a job testing games for Brainasium, the company behind the wildly popular game "Eternal Death Slayer." While Alex took a big pay cut to land his dream job, he's happy with his work and is making ends meet -- until he discovers that his roommate hasn't paid the rent for the last six months, using the money to finance repeated visits to a local massage parlor. After running out of friends who will let him sleep on their couch, Alex swallows his pride and moves in with his grandma Lily (Doris Roberts), who loves Alex and is happy to give him a place to stay in exchange for doing chores around the house. Lily shares her home with two friends, perpetually confused Bea (Shirley Knight) and sexually adventurous Grace (Shirley Jones), and between the three of them, there's always work to be done, keeping Alex busy nearly every night. While Alex tells his co-workers he's living with three attractive women who are running him ragged, they don't know the real story; in the meantime, Alex is trying to charm Brainasium's beautiful new executive, Samantha (Linda Cardellini), while butting heads with the firm's space-case CEO Cheezle (Kevin Nealon) and J.P. (Joel David Moore), a teenage game designer who is no longer in touch with reality. Grandma's Boy was the first feature film from director Nicholaus Goossen. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Linda Cardellini, Allen Covert, (more)
A woman finds herself drafted into the battle of finding the perfect man in this romantic comedy. Sarah Nolan (Diane Lane) is a kindergarten teacher in her mid-thirties who is still dealing with the emotional aftermath of her divorce eight months ago. While her sisters, Christine (Ali Hillis) and Carol (Elizabeth Perkins), both think Sarah needs to start dating again, Sarah herself isn't so sure. Carol decides to force the issue by posting Sarah's photo and profile on an Internet dating site, and soon a number of seemingly eligible bachelors are sending her e-mails in hopes of a date. However, nearly every man she meets turns out to be a loser, with the exception of Jake (John Cusack), who is smart, good looking, and even brings along a dog for their walk in the park (though he doesn't tell her the pooch was borrowed for the occasion). However, Sarah also makes the acquaintance of Bob (Dermot Mulroney), the divorced father of one of her students, and she finds herself having to choose between two potentially worthwhile men. Meanwhile, Sarah's widowed father, Bill (Christopher Plummer), decides to give Internet dating a try, and lands himself a new steady in Dolly (Stockard Channing). Must Love Dogs is based on the best-selling novel of the same title by Claire Cook. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Diane Lane, John Cusack, (more)
- 2005
The Travel Channel's highest rated program, World Poker Tour delivers exactly what its title promises: A tour of the top poker-playing locales and tournaments, featuring the best players in the business. Season Three deals out twenty episodes, each with commentary by pro poker player Mike Sexton, actor (Vince Van Patten), and Vince's sister-in-law Shana Hiatt. Opening the season is the fifth session of "Hollywood Home Game", featuring such celebrity poker enthusiasts as Daisy Fuentes, William Shatner, Mena Suvari, Skeet Ulrich, Kevin Wiseman and Chuck Woolery. Joining the fun in subsequent "Home Games" this season are the likes of LeVar Burton, Mekhi Phifer, Bob Eubanks, Mark L Walberg, Kathy Griffin and Jeremy Sisto. Elsewhere, the World Poker Tour players again compete at several events visited the previous seasons, including the third edition of the WPT Invitational. Among the new events covered this season are the Mirage Poker Showdown and the Doyle Brunson North American Championship. Of the occasional "special" episodes (originally telecast outside the official World Poker Tour season), the most intriguing is "The Young Guns of Poker", featuring some of the best players under the age of 25: Joe Cassidy, David Williams, Scott Fischman, Pete Lawson and Thomas Keleler. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mike Sexton, Vincent Van Patten, (more)
The Travel Channel's highest rated program, World Poker Tour delivers exactly what its title promises: A tour of the top poker-playing locales and tournaments, featuring the best players in the business. Season Two deals out twenty episodes, each with commentary by pro poker player Mike Sexton actor (Vince Van Patten), and Vince's sister-in-law Shana Hiatt. The festivites open with the all-celebrity "Hollywood Home Game 1", featuring such high-profile poker fantatics as Jack Black, Drew Carey, Steve Harris, Mimi Rogers, Fred Savage, and Aisha Tyler. This game will be extended throughout the year with three sequel episodes, including the season finale; among the players in these followup "Home Games" are Lolita Davidovich, Norm MacDonald,Camryn Manheim, Fred Willard, Jennifer Tilly, James Woods, Edward Asner and Ben Affleck. The second episode on the year's docket is an "all-ladies" game, spotlighting such WPT favorites as Kathy Liebert and Maureen Feduniak. This is followed by the self-explanatory "Battle of Champions." Most of the season's tour stopovers are repeats from Season One. New events covered this year are the the Borgata Open, the Grand Prix De Paris, the Binion Open, the Commerce Casino LA Classic, and the Bay 101 Shooting Stars of Poker. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mike Sexton, Vincent Van Patten, (more)
The Travel Channel's highest rated program, World Poker Tour delivers exactly what its title promises: A tour of the top poker-playing locales and tournaments, featuring the best players in the business, competing for cash prizes numbering in the millions! Season One deals out thirteen episodes, each with commentary by pro poker player Mike Sexton actor (Vince Van Patten), and Vince's sister-in-law Shana Hiatt. Among the players represented this season are such expert shufflers as Gus Hansen, Scott Nguyen, Stan Goldstein, Andy Bloch, Phil Ivy, Phil Helmuth, Howard Lederer, Hon Lee, Kathy Liebert, Anissi Tuulivirda, Phil Gordon, Jamie Ligator, R.A. Head, Vince Burgio, Layne Flack, Dave "Devil Fish" Uliott, Tony G, David "Dragon" Pham, Andy Glazer, Maureen Feduniak, TJ Cloutier and Alan Goehring. Highlight events include the Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic, the UltimateBeat Aruba Classic, the Casinos Europa Costa Rica Classic, Lucky Chances Gold Rush Tournament, the Foxwood Finals, the Binion Open, the Euro Finals, the L.A. Poker Classic, Pro-Celebrity Invitational, Reno Hilton World Poker Challenge, and the finale, the World Poker Tour (WPT) 2003 Championship. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mike Sexton, Vincent Van Patten, (more)
- 2003
The World Poker Tour covers a series of "elimination" poker tournaments in the top casinos throughout the world. Individual episodes boasted such colorful titles as "Bellagio Five Diamond," "Bicycle Casino," and "Ultimate Bet." The concluding program was a winner-take-all competition at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino, with each of the surviving contestants required to pony up 25,000 dollars to play against the previous year's tour winners. World Poker Tour made its Travel Channel bow on March 30, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Mike Sexton, Vincent Van Patten, (more)
