Dana Plato Movies
Actress Dana Plato is best known to audiences as Kimberly on the classic '80s sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. The California native began acting when she was just 11 in the movie Beyond the Bermuda Triangle, and when she joined the cast of Diff'rent Strokes in 1978, she instantly became a household name. She stayed with the show until 1984, but following its run, she ran into the same problems as many child stars and couldn't find success as an adult actress. She began to struggle with drug and alcohol addiction, facing arrest in the early '90s for robbery and for forging a prescription. In 1999, Plato suffered what the police deemed to be an accidental overdose and died while visiting her fiancé's parents' house. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi- 1997
- NR
The late Dana Plato, star of TV's Different Strokes, exploited her notoriety with this softcore lesbian-themed exploitation film from director Michael Paul Girard (Bikini Med School). Plato stars as one of two women named Jill (Landon Hall from the Escort sequels is the other) caught in a love triangle. Plato's Jill is a New York art director who comes into the life of Hall's Jill, a beautiful fashion model, and seduces her away from her photographer-lover Jack, played by Bentley Mitchum, grandson of Robert Mitchum and erstwhile co-star of TV's The Wonder Years. This film has gained some popularity among the more sensitive fans of the genre for its careful development of the story's lesbian relationship, providing more heat and romantic motivation for its softcore love scenes than most similar projects. Gabriella Hall is around to cheer on her sister's newfound sexual freedom, along with David Millbern and Michelle Trongone. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dana Plato, Bentley Mitchum, (more)
- 1996
- R
A high-profile Hollywood action star at the pinnacle of his success finds his livelihood threatened when an investigative reporter reveals his extramarital affair and he becomes the prime suspect in the subsequent murder of his wife. Rick Stone (Danny Fendley) was a big name on the silver screen until reporter Dana Fields (Dana Plato) came along, but when footage of Rick and his secret lover Stephanie (Brigitte Nielsen) hits the airwaves, the one-time Hollywood heavyweight finds both his career and his personal life thrown into a tragic tailspin from which neither is likely to recover. When Rick's wife is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect in the resulting police investigation, the fallen star is forced to enlist the aid of the very woman who ruined his career and the mistress with whom he is still connected to clear his name and take a second shot at stardom. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 1991
In this thriller, a deaf boy must prove that there is a murderous arsonist loose in his neighborhood. He can stop the killer if he can convince someone to listen to him. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1988
- R
A man escapes from a mental hospital to try and clear his name after he is accused of the murder of his girlfriend--the murder which he witnessed. ~ Rovi
- 1985
Maggie (Joanna Kerns) is worried when Mike (Kirk Cameron) begins obsessing over a girl named Lisa (Dana Plato). It isn't that Mike is all that fond of Lisa; it's simply that she is an exact (and deliberate) lookalike of pop star Madonna), right down to wearing the "Like a Virgin" wedding gown! Meanwhile, Carol (Tracey Gold) tries talking to plants to see if the conversation will have any effect on their growth. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Michael J. Fox is among the young sitcom stars enlisted for this made-for-TV teen film, about a battle between the rich, popular kids and their average counterparts. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
- Starring:
- Michael J. Fox, Nancy McKeon, (more)
- 1981
In this thriller, a snoopy and ambitious television news reporter causes an average citizen to become suspected of being a serial killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1980
In one of his earliest TV appearances, Rob Lowe stars in this ABC Afterschool Special as Charles Elderbury, a teenager whose summer girlfriend, Daisy (Dana Plato), has become pregnant. Once the child is born (an event which Charles learns about only by reading the newspaper birth notices), the story shifts into gear -- but not in the manner that one might expect. Reversing the usual TV-movie situation, Daisy wants to put her child up for adoption...while Charles, hoping to compensate for the loneliness he experienced growing up in a fatherless home, insists upon raising the kid himself. Schoolboy Father is handled in a commendably unpatronizing fashion, arriving at a logical and wholly credible conclusion. ~ Rovi
- Starring:
- Rob Lowe, Dana Plato, (more)
Playwright Neil Simon turned to the hotel setting he used so successfully in his stage-play (later a movie) Plaza Suite to explore four more human dramas in his play California Suite, which was adapted into this quite successful movie. In the first episode, the divorced couple of Bill and Hannah Warren (Alan Alda and Jane Fonda) have rented a suite in a posh Beverly Hills hotel in order to have a discussion about who will get the custody of their child. In the next episode, Sidney Cochran and Diana Barrie (Michael Caine and Maggie Smith) are a hilarious pair of Hollywood stars who have rented the suite to await their appearance at the Academy Awards: it is a "date of convenience" which enables the sexually adventurous duo to conduct their other, more unconventional alliances out of the public eye. Drs. Willis Panama and Chauncy Gump (Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor) have brought their families to Beverly Hills for a vacation which takes on nightmarish tone. Finally, Marvin Michaels (Walter Matthau) tries frantically and unsuccessfully to explain the situation to his wife (Elaine May) when she catches him in flagrante delicto with a hooker. Actress Maggie Smith won an Academy Award as "Best Supporting Actress" for her role in this film, in which she plays the actress waiting to win . . . an Academy Award. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alan Alda, Michael Caine, (more)
- 1977
- PG
This adventure chronicles the compassion of the huge, enigmatic ape-like creature said to inhabit Boggy Creek. Unlike the other series entries, which claim to be fact-based, this film is total fiction. The tale is set in a tiny fishing village near the title tributary. A hurricane is coming and the town prepares for it. Meanwhile a rumor circulates that a photographer has captured the mysterious creature, believed to be a mankiller, on film. This is surprising because the townsfolk believed that the creature disappeared many years before. The story rouses the curiosity of a few kids who follow the photographer back into the dark swamp. Unfortunately, they get trapped by the storm. Fortunately, the "killer" appears and helps them survive and return to safety. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1975
In this made-for-television drama, a retired businessman's obsession with the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle increase when his lover and her friends become its next victims. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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