Sean Roberge Movies
- 1987
Hello Kitty (voice of Tara Charendoff) and her friends put their own spin on a handful of classic fairy tales in this collection of four stories from the animated television series Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater. Episodes featured are "Kitty and the Beast," "Grinder Genie and the Magic Lamp," "Hello Mother Goose," and "Little Red Bunny Hood." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1987
In his TV-movie debut, Jerry Lewis plays Dr. Abrams, an Ohio optometrist, whose beloved 6-year-old daughter (Jaclyn Bernstein) falls victim to a rare form of epilepsy. The traditional means to keep the girl's seizures under control fail to work, putting a strain on the Abram's (Lewis and Patty Duke Astin) marriage. The couple then learns of a little-known drug called sodium valporate, which has had salutary effects upon epileptics in Britain. Unfortunately, the drug has not been approved for use in the United States; thus, by utilizing the drug to save their child from agony, the Abrams are in effect breaking the law. The cause celebre that follows forms the nucleus of Scott Nisor and Tom Nesi's fact-based screenplay. Essaying a rare dramatic role, Jerry Lewis is excellent: in fact, he's much more credible than Barry Morse as the doctor who develops the miracle drug. Fight for Live was first telecast March 23, 1987. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1987
Sanrio's beloved Hello Kitty characters, formerly found only on stationery and gift items, are brought to life in DIC's versions of fairy tales and classic film stories. In Hello Kitty: Wizard of Paws, characters Hello Dorothy, Tin Penguin, Scarecrow Chip, and Cowardly Melody Rabbit reenact the classic journey through Oz that helps teach Hello Dorothy that "there's no place like home." ~ Sarah Sloboda, All Movie Guide
- 1988
T.S. Turner is on the case in this mystery. This time he must stop some nasty street punks who are wreaking havoc on the east side. Before he can get them to quit, he must find out who is really behind all the mayhem. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Hired to help locate a missing author, an insurance investigator discovers to his terror that the nightmarish events depicted in the writer's best-selling horror novels are coming true. Wishing to be both a horror film and a parody of the genre, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness combines supernatural thrills with winking references. For instance, the vanished author, Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow), is modeled on writers like Stephen King and Howard Phillips Lovecraft, from his great popularity to his obsession with small-town New England. Indeed, it is to one such hamlet that investigator John Trent (Sam Neill) and Cane's female editor (Julie Carmen) travel, discovering a town filled with terrifying scenes right out of Cane's books, from random axe murders to far worse. Have Cane's fans gone psychotic and begun imitating his writings, or are Cane's stories of an otherworldly evil invading the earth actually true? In the Mouth of Madness's mix of self-referential satire and real frights anticipates the later Scream (1996). ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, (more)
