Thomas Richter Movies
Many a lovesick young man has threatened to camp out by a girl's front door, but one guy actually tries it in this alternately sweet and tasteless romantic comedy. Peter (Josh Schaefer) is a good-natured but socially inept young man who is madly in love with Erica (Keri Russell), the sweet and devastatingly sexy girl next door. Peter desperately wants Erica as his girlfriend, even though she already has a boyfriend, the large and humorless Nick (Johnny Green). Eager to prove himself, Peter takes up the advice of Nonno (Buck Kartalian), his batty grandfather, and literally camps out on her front lawn, willing to wait out the entire summer until she gives him a chance to prove that he can be the man of her dreams. Meanwhile, Peter is frequently kept company by his buddy Matt (R.D. Robb), who has learned how to deal with his sexual tensions through the use of fresh fruit, while Peter's dad (Mark Taylor) is convinced that his son has gone nuts and won't allow him back in the house, even for a change of clothes. While it won the Audience Award at the 1997 Slamdance Film Festival, Eight Days a Week didn't receive much commercial exposure until its release on video, after Keri Russell had made a splash on the acclaimed TV series Felicity. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Josh Schaefer, Keri Russell, (more)
In this comedy, stockbroker Jon Aldrich (Tom Selleck) is the man who has it all, until his ill, aging parents (Don Ameche and Anne Jackson) move in with him. As his perfect life begins to disintegrate bit by bit, Jon becomes more and more depressed and disillusioned. Finally, broke and friendless, Jon begins to listen to his addled parents' insistence that he do away with them and use their insurance money to start again. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tom Selleck, Don Ameche, (more)
- 1982
Irka (Martke Wellm) has been allowed to keep an old mare that used to be a champion show horse but is now losing her sight in addition to the physique that once brought her blue ribbons. The young girl and her family are taken completely by surprise when the mare gets pregnant and delivers a strapping colt into the world. Irka comes to love the newborn as much as the mother and is devastated when her father gives her an unhappy but realistic ultimatum: she can keep the mare and send the colt to be raised in bliss on a stud farm, or she can keep the colt and the mother will be sent off to the glue factory -- not a choice anyone wished on the girl, but one brought on by economic necessity. No matter what she decides, Irka is clearly faced with the first truly adult challenge in her young life. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gans Klering
