Don Scribner Movies
Writer/director Wayne Kramer offers a glimpse into the aging Las Vegas casino world with the romantic drama The Cooler. Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is extremely unlucky at gambling, and he owes the Shangri-La casino over 100,000 dollars. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a "cooler," someone to gamble next to high rollers and give them some of his bad luck to stop them from winning. This arrangement works out for awhile, until Bernie has almost paid off his debt and meets cocktail waitress Natalie Belisario (Maria Bello). The two start to fall in love and Bernie's luck begins to change. However, the old-fashioned mob boss Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin) isn't going to let Bernie go so easily. Meanwhile, Larry Sokolov (Ron Livingston) arrives on the scene to help update the business management of the old mobster-run casino. Also starring Joey Fatone and Paul Sorvino as lounge singers. The Cooler was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- William H. Macy, Maria Bello, (more)
The world is in trouble when terrorist Lars Rynark finds himself in possession of the deadliest biochemical agent known to man. Unless he's paid handsomely by the government agencies from across the globe, Rynark insists he will detonate the agent--and he's crazy enough to do it. Only three government officials stand between Rynark and his terrorist legions; a position which proves precarious, indeed. Directed by Sherman Scott, Rapid Assault features Tim Abell, Jeff Rector, Arthur Roberts, Lisa Mazzetti.
~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
- 1996
- NR
This erotic thriller (which shares no thematic links to the first Friend of the Family, though they both star Shauna O'Brien) concerns Alex (Paul Michael Robinson), a new father who meets Linda (O'Brien) while on a business trip to New Orleans. When Linda's boyfriend storms out on her in the midst of dinner in a restaurant, Alex offers to front her the money to pay the check; one thing leads to another, and she ends up spending the night with him. Before long, Alex comes to see the error of his ways, and he returns home to his wife Maddy (Jenna Bodnar). However, Linda isn't about to give up on Alex so easily; when Maddy announces that she's hired a nanny to help watch the baby, Alex is shocked to discover that it's Linda, and now he has to figure out how to keep her at arm's length while keeping his secret from his wife. Directed by cult hero Fred Olen Ray, Friend of the Family II was also released under the title Innocence Betrayed. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Michael Robinson, Shauna O'Brien, (more)
- 1991
- R
In this violent actioner, renegade cop John Bloodstone is put on suspension after he used a blow torch to stop bank robbers. Believing that the volatile Bloodstone is too dangerous and snoopy to keep around, a group of corrupt politicians and crooked G-men engineer a little "accident" for him. It begins when his superiors call him in and assign him to transport notorious crime lord Marrietta Copella to a new prison. It is en route that they are supposed to die. Unfortunately, for the crooks, the two figure out the scheme and begin working together to survive and stop them for good. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David Heavener, Tony Curtis, (more)
In this futuristic film, law and order are things of the past as cops are driven off of the crime-infested streets. It is up to a group of vigilantes to set things straight. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David Carradine, Robert Tessier, (more)
In this futuristic actioner set in the year 2020, guns have become so illegal that even cops cannot use them to stop criminals. But officer James Tucker is a maverick and carries with him an enormous homemade revolver, which he uses to blow away bad-guys and psychotic criminals. His newest assignment is to find the evil Steelmore, who uses drugs to turn his followers into nearly invincible and super-intelligent supermen. He obtains the drug through the pharmaceutical company he blackmails by regularly killing the lovers, wives and associates of high-ranking company executives. The trouble for Tucker really begins when higher-ups take away his gun. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David Heavener, Erik Estrada, (more)
- 1989
In this film, a successful Las Vegas businessman decides to relive his days as a CIA agent when he sets out to seek revenge on the people who murdered his friend. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don Scribner, Michelle Bauer, (more)
- 1987
- R
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When a pair of attractive female slaves escape from their captors, they find themselves stranded on a strange jungle-covered planet. While the girls explore their new surroundings, they discover that they are being hunted by the planet's ruler. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elizabeth Kaitan, Cindy Beal, (more)
- 1986
- R
In this provocative and scary supernatural thriller, a brides happy honeymoon aboard an Acapulco-bound yacht with her husband, two of his buddies from Vietnam and their girl friends, turns to terror when someone or something begins to kill them one by one. In the end, only she lives to tell the grisly tale via flashback. It seems that the killings have something to do with the terrible things the veterans did to the innocent back during the war. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Britt Ekland, John Phillip Law, (more)
