Christopher Moore Movies
- 2002
In the first half of NYPD Blue's ninth-season finale, no sooner have Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Connie McDowell (Charlotte Ross) returned from Disney World than they join the rest of the 15th precinct in a case involving a missing four-year-old boy. At first, it seems as though the youngster has fallen victim to an online sexual predator, but before long, several other possible suspects come to surface. Elsewhere, gay cop John Irvin (Bill Brochtrup) inherits a huge amount of money from his late long-estranged father. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Henry Simmons
- 1995
In the erotic thriller Illegal in Blue, Chris Morgan (Dan Gauthier) is a young policeman who confronts the harsh reality that he must compromise his ideals to get along in a world of moral ambiguity. When police officers split a large sum of confiscated illegal gambling money among themselves, Morgan reports it to Internal Affairs. He starts receiving death threats, and the police department suspends him without pay. Morgan begins a steamy love affair with a stunning nightclub singer, Kari Truitt (Stacey Dash), whose husband is found murdered. Morgan's suspension is lifted, and he goes back to the police department to face open hostility from officers who want him to soften his testimony against the policemen who split the gambling money. He also gets caught up in the murder investigation, where his new lover is the prime suspect, and he soon finds that he must make some difficult choices. A well-integrated musical score, moody shots of the city at night, and lyrical love scenes help to make Illegal in Blue somewhat better than many similar low-budget efforts. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1994
Most of this episode consists of flashbacks, as the terminal gang recalls their most unusual off-season jobs. Joe (Tim Daly) remembers the time he was required to escort a "celebrity" who turned out to be a chimpanzee. Helen (Crystal Bernard) has vivid memories of the magic act that morphed into a striptease in front of Roy's (David Schramm) lodge brothers. Fay (Rebecca Schull) can't get the image of herself in a lobster costume out of her head. And Antonio (Tony Shalhoub) once came face-to-face with mortality when he sold a funeral plot to a would-be suicide! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1993
- R
In Witchboard 2, naive Paige Benedict (Ami Dolenz) moves into an artist's studio loft, finding a Ouija board he left behind. A former tenant of the apartment, Susan, contacts Paige through the board, telling her that she was murdered. In no time, Paige's fellow tenants are being killed off, and she is haunted by vicious nightmares. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- 1992
Low television ratings can take a heavy toll on talk show hosts, and Larry (Garry Shandling) begins to feel the heat as viewers tune out in this episode of HBO's The Larry Sanders Show. Worried that this may be the result of waning quality, Larry hires a focus group to tune up the show. Special guest stars include Dick Simmons and Pamela Sue Martin. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1992
Teri Austin guest stars as Shannon Moss, a former girlfriend of Brian Hackett (Steven Weber). Having previously been burned romantically by Shannon, Brian insists that he will not be enmeshed in her web again -- but he does, much to the dismay of Joe (Tim Daly) and Helen (Crystal Bernard). This time, however, it seems as though Brian has cast a spell of love over Shannon, rather than the other way around. The truth comes out in the final scene, along with a laundry list of pent-up emotions and hostilties. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1991
Dom DeLuise's son Michael holds the directorial reins in the direct-to-video Almost Pregnant. Onetime "Charlie's Angel" Tanya Roberts plays a woman who'll do anything to become pregnant. Since her hubby Jeff Conaway can't deliver the goods, she decides to rely upon a surrogate. Her first new partner turns out to have had a vasectomy-and this is only the beginning. The director's dad makes an amusing appearance in this strident but undeniably funny bedroom farce. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1991
The business rivalry between Joe (Tim Daly) and Roy (David Schramm) spills over into the political arena when both men compete for the same town-council seat. The situation gets even stickier when the local newspaper refuses to endorse either Joe or Roy, choosing instead to back Joe's campaign manager Fay (Rebecca Schull). As it turns out, the newspaper's editorial staff has been "bought off" by a surfeit of home-baked goodies. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1991
With the Hackett brothers' house being fumigated, Brian (Steven Weber) tries to move in with Helen (Crystal Bernard), but Joe (Tim Daly) says no. Thus, Brian accepts the invitation extended by the motherly Fay (Rebecca Schull) to stay with her until he can move back home. It's a pleasant situation until Brian tunes in on America's Most Wanted and notices that one of the fugitives bears a striking resemblance to Fay -- whose subsequent behavior does absolutely nothing to alleviate his fears that he's next on the "hit list." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1984
Female army corporal Charlotte Brown (Lauren Chase) hires the A-Team to investigate the murder of her brother Paul at the hands of illegal arms dealers. Imagine the team's surprise when Charlotte betrays them to their nemesis, Col. Decker (Lance LeGault). When it turns out that Charlotte had done this because Decker had promised to catch her brother's murderer, the Team decides to ( a ) rescue Charlotte and solve the mystery themselves, and ( b ) play Decker for a sucker by staging a fake attack on a National Guard outpost, using little more than a record of movie sound effects. And as a bonus, Murdock (Dwight Schultz) imagines that he is a TV set, spewing out ersatz sitcoms! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of Clint Eastwood as Lt. Speer, a taciturn, tough, play-it-by-the-book cop, and on Burt Reynolds as Mike Murphy, Speer's old friend in the force, now turned private eye but still a captivating rogue at heart. With a sub-text of playing their well-known screen personas off each other, Eastwood and Reynolds provide more than a surface interpretation of the characters that made them famous. After Murphy's partner is murdered, he focuses on pitting one mob boss against another in an attempt to have both mobsters kill each other. In the meantime, Lt. Speer -- who has never approved of Murphy's private detective business -- does not really know if Murphy is for or against the two top gangsters. Set in the era of speakeasies and Prohibition, an added layer of "film noir" can be discerned under the complex plot, verbal repartée, and episodes of toned-down violence (a kind of parody in themselves). Although this may not be the best film either star has made, it is still interesting to see them together on screen. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, (more)
