Ian Ziering Movies

Three stunning strippers exact devastating revenge on their greedy club owner in director Elana Krausz's darkly comic thriller. Lily used to dance, but these days she's the manager of a seedy strip joint. Wise yet submissive, she's managed to keep her cool after years of mistreatment and objectification. Over the course of the next 24 hours, however, Lily will finally get the opportunity to take back control of her life. Lily is about to experience a transformation, but like any fundamental change, it won't come easy. Her contemptuous and paranoid husband Larry, the owner of the club, has just caught the attention of a judgmental IRS agent named Francis. Buckling under the pressure, Larry is about to go off the deep end when Lily, jaded stripper Cara, and naïve newcomer Wren hatch a plan that will finally give their vicious boss the comeuppance he deserves. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

The (mostly) true story of a Hollywood princess turned bounty hunter is told in this witty action-drama from director Tony Scott. Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley) was the daughter of famed actor Laurence Harvey (played by Jesse Pate) who passed on when Domino was only eight years old. Domino's mother, former fashion model Paulene Stone (played by Jacqueline Bisset and renamed (%Sophie Wynn) in the film), strove to give her daughter a comfortable life, but Domino was naturally rebellious, and after a contentious stint in boarding school, a brief career as a runway model, and a fling with the fashion business, Domino was looking for something more exciting. She found it when he met Ed Mosbey (Mickey Rourke), an ex-con who had gone on to a successful career as a "bail recovery agent" -- in short, a bounty hunter. Ed also taught others how to join his profession, and Domino took his course and joined his team, along with Choco (Edgar Ramirez), a headstrong bail agent who took an immediate fancy to Domino. Domino, Ed, and Choco became a successful team -- successful enough that television producer Mark Heiss (Christopher Walken) asked them to become the subject of a television reality series. However, it was after the cameras were turned on Domino that her life got truly crazy. Bail bondsman Claremont Williams III (Delroy Lindo) had hired Domino and her friends for a risky case, and soon Domino, Ed, and Choco were chasing missing men and money while landing in hot water with both the FBI and the Mafia. Domino was loosely based on Domino Harvey's real life story; sadly her personal life was as reckless as her career, and Domino died as a result of drug abuse on June 27, 2005, after this film was completed. The film also features Lucy Liu, Mena Suvari, Macy Gray, and Dabney Coleman. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

The ensemble drama about young adults growing up in Beverly Hills is a blend of romantic drama and subject matter that crosses all cultural boundaries. The storyline has followed the Walsh family as they moved from a middle-class Midwestern neighborhood to wealthy and glamorous Beverly Hills, maturing from high school to college students, facing new challenges as they continue to grow and discover more about themselves and their personal ambitions. As their worlds evolve, old friendships will be tested as new relationships develop, but no matter how complicated their worlds become, they will always share in their strengths and experiences.

The friends of Beverly Hills, 90210 are just getting warmed up! Join Brandon (Jason Priestley), Dylan (Luke Perry), Kelly (Jennie Garth), Donna (Tori Spelling), David (Brian Austin Green), Steve (Ian Ziering), Val (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen), and Clare (Kathleen Robertson) as they discover new love, battle addictions, and test the waters outside the college campus in all 31 sizzling episode of 1995-6's Season 6. Witness Kelly's terrifying descent into drugs; Dylan's unlikely marriage proposal; and a porno that is filmed at Brandon's house! As their lives twist, turn, and bend in different directions, it's the bonds of friendship that will never break.

The ensemble drama about young adults growing up in Beverly Hills is a blend of romantic drama and subject matter that crosses all cultural boundaries. The storyline has followed the Walsh family as they moved from a middle-class Midwestern neighborhood to wealthy and glamorous Beverly Hills, maturing from high school to college students, facing new challenges as they continue to grow and discover more about themselves and their personal ambitions. As their worlds evolve, old friendships will be tested as new relationships develop, but no matter how complicated their worlds become, they will always share in their strengths and experiences.

The prime television destination for many younger viewers during the early '90s, Beverly Hills 90210 delivered scandal, controversy, and sexy story lines on a weekly basis. The series centered on the lives of the teenage Walsh twins, Brenda (Shannen Doherty) and Brandon (Jason Priestly), who move with their parents from rural Minnesota to drama-rich Beverly Hills at the beginning of Season 1. Learning to assimilate to the California lifestyle isn't easy; it takes the help of their high school friends Kelly (Jennie Garth), Donna (Tori Spelling), Steve (Ian Ziering), Andrea (Gabrielle Carteris), and David (Brian Austin Green), as well as bad boy (and teen heartthrob) Dylan (Luke Perry) to get Brenda and Brandon to come out their shells. Season 2 (1991-92) of the Aaron Spelling/Darren Star-created drama features a pregnancy scare for Brenda; Dylan's rehab stint; the truth about Steve's birth mother; an accidental shooting; and the introduction of the fascinating but troubled Emily Valentine (Christine Elise). Also new to the scene is Jake Hanson (Grant Show), who eventually went on to anchor the 90210 spin-off Melrose Place, which launched in the autumn of 1992. Bonus features in this eight-disc include: "Our Favorite Valentine," Elise's look back at Emily; "Meet the Walshes," during which actors Carol Potter and James Eckhouse discuss their roles as the "perfect" Beverly Hills parents Cindy and Jim Walsh; and "Everything You Need to Know About Beverly Hills 90210 Season 2," featuring pop-culture experts and comedians Michael Colton and John Aboud.

One of the definitive, landmark shows of the 1990s, "90210" quickly became an important fixture on the FOX and in the popular discourse of adolescents and young adults. The first season's main characters, Dylan, Kelly, Donna, Steve, David, Andrea and twins Brandon and Brenda all attended West Beverly Hills High School. Brandon and Brenda Walsh and their parents, transplants from Minneapolis, were the stable nuclear family with strong values; their home was a safe haven for the whole gang and the center of much of the drama. The show dealt with a steady stream of love triangles and other romantic entanglements and occasionally touched on more serious issues as well.

First telecast October 4, 1972, the ABC Afterschool Special series was an ambitious project underwritten not only by ABC but also by several prominent children's advertisers -- the network's "answer" to such prestigious PBS efforts as Sesame Street and The Electric Company. In its earliest seasons, the series was aimed at elementary- and secondary-school students, though later its scope was expanded to accommodate teenage viewers of high-school age. Initially telecast on a monthly basis, the program was seen on Wednesdays in the 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. slot, depending upon the schedules of the individual network affiliates. As the series progressed, it could often be seen on a biweekly basis; and in 1981, three ABC Afterschool Specials were telecast in Sunday-evening prime time under the umbrella title "The ABC Theater for Young Americans." Adopting an anthology format, the series offered a wide variety of 60-minute playlets, some comical, most serious, many adaptations of popular children's novels. Several of the stories concerned such volatile topics as drunk driving, teen pregnancy, the plight of the homeless, the environment, divorce, child abuse, sexual molestation, the "punk rock" scene, illiteracy, anti-Semitism, schizophrenia, dyslexia, and AIDS. Though often provocative, the series never lapsed into bad taste; and though aimed at a young audience, the scripts neither patronized nor condescended to the viewer.
In its first few seasons, ABC Afterschool Special included a handful of animated programs, a musical celebration of William Shakespeare, and an intriguing documentary on a 1974 state political campaign, as seen through the eyes of two teenage campaign volunteers. Eventually, such "offbeat" entries were weeded out, and the series focused exclusively upon dramatizations. Among the best and most celebrated episodes were The Woman Who Willed a Miracle, the true story of autistic savant Leslie Lemke and his indefatigable stepmother; My Mom's Having a Baby, which included videotaped footage of a live birth; Rookie of the Year, the tale of a talented female Little League ballplayer; the amusing, self-explanatory It Must Be Love (Cause I Feel So Dumb); the equally self-explanatory but far more serious The Late Great Me! Story of a Teenage Alcoholic (one of several episodes alerting viewers to the existence of an organization called AlaTeen); and The Wave, a chilling cautionary fable about the seductive powers of blind groupthink and neofascism. In its later seasons, the program featured an off and on miniseries called "Summer Stories," in which the challenges facing youngsters of the 1990s were dramatized in a period setting.
The cast lists of the various ABC Afterschool Specials read like a veritable who's who of former child and teenage actors who graduated to adult stardom. Jodie Foster and Kristy McNichol appeared in several of the earliest entries, while later episodes featured such up-and-comers as Rob Lowe, Ben Affleck, River Phoenix, Kyra Sedgwick, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rosanna Arquette, Jennifer Grey, Seth Green, Trini Alvarado, Michelle Pfeiffer, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Grey, Sean Astin, Mare Winningham, and Kellie Martin. The winner of countless industry honors (including several Emmy and Peabody Awards), ABC Afterschool Special continued turning out new episodes at the rate of six to seven per year until ABC was taken over by Disney in 1996. ~ Rovi