Robert Baylis Movies
- 1992
In this action thriller, an artist discovers that his brother has gotten involved with organized crime and has fallen deep in debt to the mob following a drug deal gone bad. The artist decides that the only way to pay off his brother's tab is to steal the money, and soon he and his girlfriend are involved in a heist that could cost them their lives. Canvas stars Gary Busey, Cary Lawrence, and John Rhys-Davies. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1992
- R
Director Alain Zaloum cowrote the screenplay of Canvas: The Fine Art of Crime with Brenda Newman. Gary Busey plays Ossie Decker, an aspiring artist with a genius for forgery. Decker goes to work for mob functionary John Rhys-Davies, the better to pay off a debt of honor owed by Decker's brother. He involves himself in a scheme to steal rare paintings, then palm off phonies as the genuine article. Eventually wearying of ripping off the art-loving public-and having nearly lost his life on at least one occasion--Decker wants out. But by now, he has painted himself into a dangerously tight corner. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1992
- R
In this action thriller, an artist discovers that his brother has gotten involved with organized crime and has fallen deep in debt to the mob following a drug deal gone bad. The artist decides that the only way to pay off his brother's tab is to steal the money, and soon he and his girlfriend are involved in a heist that could cost them their lives. Canvas stars Gary Busey, Cary Lawrence, and John Rhys-Davies. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1984
This routine French melodrama features Catherine Deneuve) as Margaux, an unhappily married recording-company executive with two children at home who starts an affair with Jeremy (Christophe Lambert), one of the singers she promotes through her company. Margaux's husband is away in New York working on a book, yet she still tries to hide her affair from her children, unwilling to let anyone know what is happening -- especially her husband. Jeremy's old singing partner Michel (Richard Anconina) misses his friend, who now spends most of his time with Margaux, and on one occasion Michel is forced to go to an important audition by himself. When the audition turns out to be a big success, Jeremy has to make up his mind about both his conflicting partnerships: one with Margaux and the other with Michel. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lambert, (more)
- 1984
Jill Clayburgh stars in Miles to Go as a loving wife and mother. She discovers that she has terminal cancer, and struggles to come to grips with this appalling information. Resigned to her fate, she decides she has to leave "something more than a memory" for her husband (Tom Skerritt) and her daughters (Mimi Kuzyk and Rosemary Dunsmore). She endeavors to solve the various personal difficulties facing her family in the short time she has left-and to do that, she searches high and low for her own replacement! Made for TV, Miles to Go premiered on October 14, 1986. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jill Clayburgh
- 1983
Strict behavior codes and the struggle to eke out a living provide a backdrop to this romantic drama set at the turn of the 20th century in rural, northern Quebec. Maria Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) returns to the home of her parents in a remote village, and during the period of one year, has her heart-strings pulled in three different directions at once -- though only one of those directions is what she really wants. She had been promised in marriage to the shy neighboring farmer (Pierre Curzi), whom she has known since they were children, but a suave man-about-town wants to marry her (Donald Lautrec), and a handsome trapper (Nick Mancuso) has fallen in love with her. Maria fluctuates between the trapper and the urban aristocrat, and as events unfold, her indecision leads to tragic consequences. Also filmed by Julien Duvivier in 1934, this story first became popular when published as a novel (by Louis Hemon) in 1913. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Carole Laure, Nick Mancuso, (more)
Set in the '30s, Mountie Millen (Lee Marvin) is assigned to track down accused murderer Johnson (Charles Bronson), who has escaped in the high passes of the Canadian Rockies. Johnson, a trapper, has extensive knowledge of wilderness living, but Millen has the resources of the Canadian police at his beck and call. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Charles Bronson, Lee Marvin, (more)
Agency tackles the question of the efficiency of media manipulation. An unscrupulous advertising agency, in league with equally untrustworthy political campaign manager Robert Mitchum, plants subliminal messages in its TV commercials. Just as Vance Packard warned in the 1950s expose The Hidden Persuaders, these hidden messages persuade the viewers to vote for Mitchum's candidate. Given the potency of the the film's premise, it's disappointing to watch director George Gaczender handle the material (based on a novel by Paul Gottleib) is so cut-and-dried a fashion. But Mitchum is good, as are his costars Valerie Perrine, Lee Majors, Saul Rubinek and Alexandra Stewart. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, (more)
- 1981
- PG
Based on a true story, this film follows the trials and tragedies that befall Walter Reamer (Tom Skerritt) and his wife, Olive (Ellen Burstyn), as they struggle to create a home and raise a family in the brutal Canadian frontier of 1919. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, (more)
- 1975
- R
In this melodrama a married woman cannot decide between her lover and her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
