Reza S. Badiyi Movies

A year after his wife's death and nearly a decade since his last visit home, successful New York lawyer Spencer Krane (Michael Houston King) returns home to care for his ailing grandmother in director Reza S. Badiyi's character-driven family drama. Jo McMillan (Julie Harris) has suffered a massive stroke, and now her grandson Spencer has returned home to care for the woman who raised him. As Spencer reconnects with such important people from his childhood as his grandmother's lifelong friend Maude (Ruby Dee) and his childhood sweetheart Sarah Marshall (Tessie Santiago), he gradually begins to realize just how far he has strayed from the values that he had been taught as a young boy. Spencer has experienced a fair share of tragedy over the years, and now as he arrives in the old Florida town of Sanford he may finally find the peace that allows him to come to terms with the past, and look toward the future with a newfound sense of hope. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Its titled derived from a circus term describing an inexperienced performer in his first season, director Paul Sirmons film is adapted from author Gail Radley's popular novel of the same name. The story centers on the friendship between an eleven year old foster child named Cory (Dan Byrd) and an elderly nursing home patient named Carlotta (Julie Harris). Cory has been bounced from foster home to foster home, and he's never felt like he's had a real family. Carlotta feels like she's been forgotten by the world, and rails against the strict rules of that the nurses try and enforce on her. Together, Cory and Carlotta run away to join a traveling circus. Now, under the guidance of the energetic circus owner (Mickey Rooney), this old has-been and young spring chicken prepare to dazzle the crowds and start a new life. Charles Nelson Reilly co-stars as a kindly clown who helps mentor Cory, and Joe DiMaggio appears as a mysterious stranger who encourages the young boy to chase his dreams. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Arriving in an eerily deserted San Francisco, the Sliders come across a tattered, half-mad Quinn lookalike (played by Jerry O'Connell, of course) who holds himself responsible for the end of Mankind. Actually, Mankind is still alive, but has been transferred en masse to a parallel world--resulting in a devastating population explosion, with far too many people (a "double" for every man, woman, and child) and far too few resources. It is up to the Sliders to restore the proper population balance before time (and space) runs out for untold billions of innocent humans. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The stuck-up attitude of Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) comes back to hurt her in this important first-year episode. While campaigning to be crowned Sunnydale High's May Queen, Cordelia's date is clubbed to death by a possessed baseball bat. A friend of Cordelia's then falls down some stairs, leading Buffy to believe that an invisible assailant might be at work in Sunnydale. Soon enough, Buffy discovers evidence of a girl named Marcia Ross (Clea DuVall) living in the recesses of Sunnydale High. Among her belongings, she finds a yearbook signed by Xander (Nicholas Brendon) and Willow (Alyson Hannigan), although no one seems to remember the girl. Treated as invisible for so long, Marcia has actually become invisible and is exacting revenge upon her classmates. Buffy finds a way of stopping her before she can kill Cordelia, creating some goodwill between the two. By the end, Marcia is taken away by federal agents to be rehabilitated at a school for other invisible students, foreshadowing other political entanglements Buffy will encounter in future seasons. Another point of interest in this episode is the first meeting between Angel (David Boreanaz) and Giles (Anthony Stewart Head). ~ All Movie Guide

Nikita (Peta Wilson) discovers that one of the three thieves who have stolen a valuable computer chip is Steven Wolfe (Christopher Kennedy). Under any other circumstances, Wolfe would be dead meat -- except that he happens to be the long-estranged son of Nikita's superior Operations (Eugene Robert Glazer). Ordered to keep Steven alive at all costs, Nikita agrees -- but only if she is promised her own freedom from Section One. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

On the eve of a secret peace-treaty negotation with Cardassia, Vedek Bareil (Philip Anglim) is critically injured in an accident. The only hope for his survival -- and the successful completion of negotiations -- may lie in an unorthodox and potentially lethal medical procedure. With no other choice at hand, Dr. Bashir reluctantly begins the risky treatments. First telecast January 30, 1995, "Life Support" was scripted by Ronald D. Moore, from a story by Christian Ford and Roger Soffer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

While struggling with a case of accidental radiation poisoning, O'Brien is suddenly propelled into the near future. Before his disbelieving eyes, he witnesses own death and the total destruction of DS9. These grim prognostications may be tied in with the visit of a Romulan delegation, who hope to learn more about the dreaded Dominion. Scripted by John Shirley from a story by Ethan H. Calk, "Visionary" first aired February 27, 1995. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In this tense drama, a judge's daughter attempts to escape the persistent, unwanted attentions of the clever college professor who is determined to harm her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this feature-length episode of the popular Southern cop drama, Forbe's hunt for a serial killer becomes personal after the daughter of his lover becomes a victim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this adventure, a luckless photographer meets a handsome kayaker and joins him in the fight to keep a wild mountain river from being exploited by self-serving developers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This fact-based exploitation drama tells the story of a buxom policewoman who nearly destroys both her personal and professional life by posing naked for a popular men's magazine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This TV movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men was a labor of love for producer-star Robert Blake, who utilized the screenplay from the 1939 Hollywood version as his guide--a screenplay personally presented to Blake by the original film's director, Lewis Milestone. Blake and Randy Quaid play George and Lennie, a pair of itinerant workers who share a dream of saving up enough money for their own ranch. George is smart, resourceful and slight-statured; Lennie has the mind of a child and the strength of Hercules. The two lifelong friends are hired on as hands at a large Salinas Valley spread. Their "best laid schemes" for a place of their own dissolve into a tragic denouement, sparked by the boss' pugnacious son Curley (Ted Neeley) and Curley's bored, faithless wife Mae (Cassie Yates). The 1939 Of Mice and Men is regarded as a masterpiece, though it suffers from the censorship restrictions of the time; curiously, this 1981 film, adapted for television by E. Nick Alexander, makes no attempt to restore the "chancy" elements that had been excised from the earlier film. Of Mice and Men was first telecast on November 29, 1981; a third filmization of the Steinbeck work, starring Gary Sinise and John Malkovich, was released theatrically in 1993. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide