George Mendeluk Movies

A woman suffering from amnesia discovers that the man she believes to be her fiancée may be the man she should fear most in this made for television thriller starring Elisabeth Rohm and Michael Shanks. Brooke was running from a mysterious threat when she somehow ended up aboard a small boat. Set adrift at sea, Brooke was later taken to the hospital and diagnosed with memory loss. Hoping to speed up the recovery process, Brooke's fiancée Brett takes her to the couple's vacation villa, where patiently cares for her while gently reminding her about the details of their former life together. But when Brooke's instincts tell her to start seeking out the answers for herself, Brett inexplicably intervenes. Now, the more Brooke discovers about her own past, the more she begins to fear the man who claims to care for her most. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

"Earth can be darker than space," so read the tagline for the ambitious cable sci-fi/fantasy series Odyssey 5. Returning from a lengthy mission in deep space, the crew of a shuttle discovered that they cannot go home because there is no home to go to: The Earth had been destroyed by a huge explosion. A mysterious alien called "the Seeker" (played in the two-hour pilot episode by John Neville) offered the crew an opportunity to prevent the catastrophe and save humankind by traveling five years back in time. There was only one hitch: The crew members were not their "present" selves in the past, but had all grown five years younger, and were still mired in the personal problems that plagued them at this earlier stage: One of the crewpersons was stuck in an unhappy marriage, another was weighed down by a drug dependency, still another was a pimply faced, neurotic high school kid, and so on. The principal characters were the Taggarts -- Chuck (Peter Weller), Neil (Christopher Gorham), Paige (Gina Clayton), and Marc (Kenneth Mitchell) -- and Kurt Mendel (Sebastian Roche), Angela Perry (Tamara Craig Thomas), and Sarah Forbes (Leslie Silva). Odyssey 5 launched its 19-episode Showtime cable network run on June 21, 2002. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Produced in Canada, but first broadcast on French television in 2001, the weekly, 60-minute sci-fi series Starhunter top-billed Michael Paré as interplanetary bounty hunter Dante Montana. In addition to hopping from one planet to another in pursuit of his profession, Dante was also dedicated to finding his son, who'd been kidnapped a decade earlier. Along the way, the hero was alternately impressed and depressed by the way in which Humanity and the Universe were constantly changing and re-inventing themselves. Premiering in Canada over The Movie Network on May 8, 2002, Starhunter was syndicated to the United States on September 9 of that same year. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Shoemaker Joey Paducci (Rod Wilson) is arrested for stealing from a church collection box. It turns out that Paducci has been reduced to poverty by a gang of extortionists, headed by Frank Zuko (Jim Bracchita), childhood classmate and schoolyard tormentor of Detective Raymond Vecchio (David Marciano). In order to free Paducci and others from Zuko's iron grip, Ray must personally stand up to the bullying gang boss. Meanwhile, Fraser (Paul Gross) has quite a time avoided the amorous advance of Ray's sister Francesca (Ramona Milano). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

21 Jump Street heartthrob Richard Grieco stars in the 1994 motorcycle movie Bolt, released on DVD as Rebel Run. A tough New Jersey biker named Bolt (Grieco) travels across the country heading west. He encounters old gang rival Billy Niles (Michael Ironside). Bolt fights to protect his Indian girlfriend Patty Deerheart (Sean Young) from land-stealing bad guys. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

This undistinguished comedy about life in prison features caricatures of inmates and law enforcement officers, as well as prison guards, in attempts at slapstick action. After Duke Jarrett (Jeff Altman) is put into prison because he had sex with the wife of a government VIP, he discovers that life in the prison is out of control -- until a disciplinarian takes charge. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

This is a fast-paced, standard crime story with Sgt. Boyd (Richard Crenna) as a lone cop out to clean up the neighborhood. Kurtz (Paul Williams) is a wild gangster who manages a ring of prostitutes, and right now he has problems. Someone is shooting his hookers. A few of the undercover cops get killed as they try to infiltrate the hooker trade, so Sgt. Boyd is more or less alone in bringing in the sniper and giving Kurtz his due. While he is focusing on those tasks, prostitute Monica (Linda Sorenson) is focusing on him. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Veteran character actor Henry Beckman essays the title role in the Canadian Merry Wives of Tobias Rourke. The victim of a confidence scam, the wealthy Tobias finds himself wed to both Judy Gault and Linda Sorenson. Thinking fast, Tobias passes off one of his spouses as his daughter-in-law. Things get dicier from there on in, thanks to the chicanery of con artist Paul Bradley. When the plot threatens to get too complex for its own good, narrator Michael Magee straightens the audience out. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide