Kerry Liu Movies
- 2006
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The head of a hedonistic group believes that someone has targeted her for murder in this gay-themed comedy from prolific B-movie director Joe Castro. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 2005
This hastily assembled rehash of the infamous Laci Peterson murder case is based on Amber Frey's book Witness: For the Proseuction of Scott Peterson, which may explain why she comes off as the most sympathetic person in the film. Basically, the script adheres to the facts: The mistress of Scott Peterson (Nathan Anderson), Amber Frey (Janel Moloney) begins to suspect that something is amiss with her sweetheart when, during what is supposed to his trip to Europe, he is suddenly popping up on every TV station and cable service in the country, swearing up and down that he had nothing to do with the disappearance of his wife Laci and their unborn son Connor. Eventually, Amber decides to cooperate with the Modesto Police Department in their efforts to pin a murder rap on Scott, agreeing to wear a wire while conversing with Scott over his domestic travails. In his frenzied efforts to counteract previous lies by cooking up new ones, Peterson effectively puts the noose around his own neck--and Amber rightfully emerges as the heroine of the piece (though not, it is hinted, without putting her own life in jeopardy in process). Somehow, the film manages to work in several plugs for the self-help book "du jour", The Purpose-Driven Life. Produced for CBS, the made-for-TV Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution premiered May 25, 2005. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
A seemingly innocent woman becomes involved in the netherworld of massage parlors in this drama. Maya (Kerry Liu) is a young Asian woman who arrives one day at a seedy massage parlor in a run-down neighborhood in Los Angeles. Dressed in shabby clothes and speaking in broken English, she asks Mamasan (Tomiko Lee), who runs the parlor, for a job, and Mamasan immediately puts the attractive Maya on staff. While obviously new to the world of "shower and massage" - which is about sex rather than physical therapy - Maya soon becomes one of the most popular women working the parlor, and she soon bonds with her co-workers, including the thick-skinned Asia (Gina Hiraizuma), vulnerable Yuko (Mari Tanaka), practical Jenna (Hiromi Nishiyama), and self-centered Sammy (Kate Holliday). Maya also gets to know Harry (Luciano Saber), a freelance writer and would-be poet who at the age of thirty has yet to lose his virginity. As he stops in for the occasional "massage," Maya and the painfully shy Harry find themselves developing a very non-businesslike infatuation for one another, and as she confronts her growing love for Harry, Maya must come to terms with the secret that brought her to the parlor in the first place. Directed by Korean-American independent filmmaker Young Man Kang, Soap Girl received the Audience Award at the 2002 Big Bear Lake International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Luciano Saber, Kerry Liu, (more)
In this off-beat low-budget horror outing, two teenage co-eds are hired to babysit a young girl; after the girl's parents have left for the evening, the babysitters invite their boyfriends over to play cards and try to make a Ouija board work. Meanwhile, the girl they're supposed to be watching is upstairs in her room, amusing herself with a video called Terror Toons, which looks like a children's television show gone horribly wrong. As the girl watches the video's gory mayhem, two of the characters, Max Assassin and Dr. Carnage, decide they're tired of being trapped on videotape and escape into the real world; soon Carnage and Assassin are running around the house looking for victims, while the girl and her guardians for the evening try to figure out how to send the bloodthirsty creatures back to video-land. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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