Matthew Jacobs Movies

Last Scene

2003

An elderly actor makes a belated effort to revive his career in this sentimental drama. In 1965, Ken Mihara (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is an young leading man whose career is...

Mr. St. Nick

2002

Kelsey Grammer stars as Nick St. Nicholas, a Miami-based playboy philanthropist who is about to make his life complete by wedding the girl of his dreams, gorgeous TV...

The Emperor's New Groove

G  2000

A ruler learns how the other half lives -- the animal half, that is -- in this animated comedy-adventure from the Walt Disney Studios. Kuzco (voice of David Spade) is the...

Doctor Who

1996

Coproduced by the BBC and America's Fox Network, the two-hour movie Doctor Who was an attempt to revive the phenomenally popular science-fiction series which orginally...

Lassie

PG  1994

The story of an intelligent, heroic collie and his young owner, previously featured in numerous films and a successful 1950s television series, was updated for the 1990s in this...

Hallelujah Anyhow

1990

Adlyn (Dona Croll) is a woman preacher married to the pastor of a large church for Caribbean blacks living in Britain. She has lived for years with a guilty secret: her son's...

Lorna Doone

1990

This British version of Lorna Doone is one of the more rewarding film adaptations of the venerable R. D. Blackmore novel. The plot remains as ever: Lorna (Polly Walker), a...

Paperhouse

PG13  1989

Eleven-year-old Charlotte Burke, the neglected daughter of Ben Cross and Glenne Headley, passes out on the school playground and dreams of visiting a house she'd...