Tom Thayer Movies
Director Sacha Gervasi adapts Stephen Rebello's book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho to explore the relationship between the legendary British director (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren), who played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in the making of her husband's terrifying 1960 classic Psycho. Scarlett Johansson co-stars as Janet Leigh and James D'Arcy portrays Anthony Perkins in a film also featuring Jessica Biel, Danny Huston, Toni Collette, and Ralph Macchio. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Adapted from the best-selling novel by author Michael Crichton, director Mikael Salomon's made for television mini-series follows a group of specialized scientists as they race to cure a fast-spreading plague. A U.S. military satellite has crashed near a small Utah town, unleashing a deadly pathogen. Everyone who's come into contact with the virus has died, except for two survivors. Could something in the blood of these two survivors prove the key to immunizing the rest of mankind and preventing a devastating outbreak? Now, as a lone reporter begins investigating what he believes to be a vast government conspiracy, the military quarantines the area and a specialized team of scientists race to find a cure for the pathogen they have given the code name, "Andromeda." ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Benjamin Bratt, Eric McCormack, (more)
Director Yves Simoneau explores the plight of the American Indian in the later half of the 19th century in this docudrama exploring the effects of westward expansion and based on the book by Dee Brown. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, (more)
Faith of My Fathers tells the story of the young John McCain (Shawn Hatosy). The film charts McCain's early home life with his father, Admiral Jack McCain (Scott Glenn), follows him through his years of training in the Navy, and focuses on his harrowing years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. The film is based on the memoir of the same title that was written by McCain himself. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Starring:
- Shawn Hatosy, Scott Glenn, (more)
- 2004
From the creators of American Chopper, the hour-long documentary series Ghost Hunters chronicled the exploits of the members of TAPS, aka The Atlantic Paranormal Society, who traveled throughout New England investigating reports of haunted houses, psychic contact, soul possession and other such paranormal activity. The leaders of TAPS were a pair of professional plumbers named Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, who generally only indulged in ghost-hunting in their spare time. Likewise, the members of Hawes and Wilson's investigative team were comprised of Average Joes and Janes with real lives, instead of the obsessive, anal-retentive types normally associated with such pursuits. Indeed, the TAPS team were realists, who often as not shrugged philosophically when an instance of "ghostly" activity proved to be false. Still, the team was invariably thrilled when evidence of the the Paranormal was captured on camera. Referred to by its home cable network Sci-Fi Channel as a "docu-soap", the weekly, 60-minute Ghost Hunters premiered October 6, 2004. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
The 10-episode opening season of Ghost Hunters finds the members of TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society), captained by a pair of level-headed professional plumbers named Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson), hunted down evidence of paranormal activity throughout New England. In the first episode, TAPs technical manager Brian Harnois alerts the team to possible poltergiest activity in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Hawes, Wilson et. al. remain in the same town for the next episode, in which they look into a reported haunting at the historic Mishler Theater and the sighting of a restless spirit at the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Musuem. Then it's off to New London, Connecticut, in hopes of finding out if the Lighthouse Inn is being haunted by one of those ghostly brides so common to paranormal mythology. Long Island Sound is the next stop, where at the request of the US Coast Guard the team looks into some curious luminescent activity at the Race Rock Lighthouse. Subsequent stopovers include Eastern State Penitentiary, an abandoned prison with a "bad" reputation, which is thoroughly scoured for evidence of spectral ex-convicts. Equally eerie is a deconsectrated 19th century New England church, where doors open and close mysteriously and strange noises are heard in the night. The team later sets up their camera equipment in hopes of catching a ghost "in the act" in New Bedford, Massachussetts Armory--with shocking results. Then, the team must determine in the "disturbances" in a college dorm are paranormal activity or merely the result of too much beer-guzzling. Also, TAPS joins forces with Mike Sinclair, founder of ORION paranormal, for a probe of the New Boston Inn in the Berkshires. And wrapping up the first season, the team looks into two different cases in a single episde: A report from a "sensitive" who claims to have been accosted by a demonic spirit, and the possibility that a family's home is still inhabited by the ghost of the man who built it. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, (more)
The child who could start fires with her mind is all grown up and still trying to find out the truth about what happened to her in this made-for-TV sequel to the sci-fi fantasy Firestarter. Nearly 20 years ago, Charlene "Charlie" McGee (Marguerite Moreau) was trained by a mysterious government organization who wanted to exploit her special and very dangerous gift, though Charlie learned the government operatives were not to be trusted when they murdered her parents. Charlie ran away from them as a child, but now in her mid-twenties, she's decided she wants to know more about the people who shaped her strange destiny -- just as Rainbird (Malcolm McDowell), the man who shaped Charlie's pyrotechnic gift years before, finally finds her after years of search. To Charlie's horror, she discovers a number of other children with bizarre talents. Charlie is soon on the run from Rainbird again, and her only allies in flight are a former associate of Rainbird turned enemy of the state (Danny Nucci) and fellow test subject (Dennis Hopper). Firestarter: Rekindled originally aired as a two-part miniseries on the Sci-Fi network on March 10 and 11, 2002. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Marguerite Moreau, Malcolm McDowell, (more)
F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, often regarded as one of the greatest American novels of the 20th century, is brought to the screen in this made-for-TV feature, produced in collaboration with the A&E Cable Network in the United States, and Granada Entertainment in Great Britain. Nick Carraway (Paul Rudd) is a young bond salesman who rents a cottage near the mansion of the wealthy but reclusive Jay Gatsby (Toby Stephens). In time, Nick gets to know his neighbor, who has accumulated a vast fortune through vague, suspect means, but has carefully forged an outward image of refinement and charm. Years ago, before he left to fight in World War I, Gatsby was a poor man named Gatz and was in love with a beautiful woman from a wealthy family, Daisy (Mira Sorvino). When he returned, Gatz was determined to remake himself so that he might be seen fit to someday win her hand, even though Daisy had by this time married the socially prominent but boorish Tom Buchanan (Martin Donovan). Gatsby has yet to give up on his romantic dream and enlists Nick, who is distantly related to Daisy, in his plan. This production marked the fourth time that The Great Gatsby had been committed to film -- the best known version being Jack Clayton's 1974 adaptation, featuring Robert Redford as Gatsby and Mia Farrow as Daisy. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino, (more)
- 1984
In this action-drama, a crack team of transport specialists try to stop terrorists from hijacking an armored van filled with plutonium. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Morgan Fairchild, Billy Dee Williams, (more)
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