Amazing Stories: Book 2 1987  PG, 71 min.
Genre: Animation / Horror / Sci-Fi
Director: Robert Zemeckis, Brad Bird
Cast: Christopher Lloyd, Scott Coffey, Mary Stuart Masterson, Stan Freberg, Annie Potts, Mercedes McCambridge, Billy Beck, Tom Bresnahan, Scott Menville, Marshall Efron, Jack Angel, Brad Bird
Two more stories from the Spielberg TV series are provided: "Go to the Head of the Class," concerns two students who get back at their sadistic teacher, and "Family Dog" is an animated film of a suburban family as seen through the eyes of their dog.
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Black Market Baby 1977  TV, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: A Dangerous Love
Don't Steal My Baby
Director: Robert Day
Cast: Desi Arnaz Jr., Bill Bixby, Linda Purl, Tom Bosley, Annie Potts, Jessica Walter, David Doyle, Beulah Quo
Based on Elizabeth Christman's novel "A Nice Italian Girl," this film tells the story of a baby-racket ring that hires a man (Desi Arnaz Jr.) to impregnate a college girl (Linda Purl) and then sell the resulting baby. When he falls in love with her, the bad guys are not happy.
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Crimes of Passion 1984  R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Annie Potts, Bruce Davison, Stephen Lee, John G. Scanlon, Gordon Hunt, Pat McNamara, Dan Gerrity, Terry Hoyos, Vince McKewin, Norman Burton, James Crittenden
Prostitute or fashion designer–Joanna Crane (Kathleen Turner) cannot seem to decide which way to go. She works as designer "Joanna" by day but at night is streetwalker "China Blue." When Bobby Grady (John Laughlin) is given the job of looking for evidence that Joanna is stealing designs, he sees her turning into China Blue at night. Unhappily married to his wife (Annie Potts), Bobby falls in love with Joanna. But, a fanatic preacher, Rev. Peter Shane (Anthony Perkins), is determined to prevent Bobby and Joanna from ever getting together.
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Elvis Has Left the Building 2004 PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure
Director: Joel Zwick
Cast: Kim Basinger, John Corbett, Annie Potts, Sean Astin, Denise Richards, Mike Starr, Phill Lewis, Philip Charles MacKenzie, Tom Hanks, Angie Dickinson, Pat Morita, David Leisure
Harmony Jones (Kim Basinger) has always been an Elvis fan, but now she finds that Elvis impersonators she meets are dying in her presence. Matters come to a head when Harmony drives her car into a car carrying Elvis impersonators and kills them, and her immediate reaction is to flee the scene. Now, on the run from the FBI, Harmony meets NYC lawyer Miles Taylor (John Corbett) but suspects that he is also an Elvis impersonator and rejects his advances because she is afraid she will jinx him.
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 Ghostbusters 1984  PG, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Ivan Reitman
Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Harold Ramis, Annie Potts, William Atherton, Ernie Hudson, David Margulies, Michael Ensign, Steven Tash, Jennifer Runyon, Slavitza Jovan, Alice Drummond, Jordan Charney
After Columbia University colleagues Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Raymond Stantz, and Dr. Egon Spengler (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis) lose their jobs at the university, they set up their own shop in New York City and offer their clients the service of Ghostbusters–ridding property of supernatural residents. Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) hires the Ghostbusters to investigate strange things that have been happening in her Central Park apartment. The Ghostbusters arrive on the scene and discover that Dana's apartment is the entryway to the spirit world of ghosts intent on terrorizing the citizens of New York City. Now, the Ghostbusters set out to rid the city of more than a few slimy creatures.
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 Ghostbusters II 1989   PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Director: Ivan Reitman
Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Peter MacNicol, David Margulies, Mary Ellen Trainor, Harris Yulin, Kurt Fuller, Janet Margolin, Wilhelm von Homburg
The Ghostbusters–Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Dr. Raymond Stanz (Dan Aykroyd), Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis), and Winston Zeddmore (Ernie Hudson)–have been restrained by the city from engaging in paranormal work. Meanwhile, Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) is now divorced and working as a restorer of art at a museum. While she is working on a portrait of Vigo the Carpathian, the portrait becomes hexed, and the ghost of Vigo (Wilhelm von Homburg) wants to take over the body of Dana's child. As slime oozes up from the streets of Manhattan, the Ghostbusters reunite in an effort to save New York City.
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Jumpin' Jack Flash 1986 R, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action / Romance / Thriller
Director: Penny Marshall
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Carol Kane, Jonathan Pryce, James Belushi, John Wood, Roscoe Lee Browne, Annie Potts, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Peter Michael Goetz, Sara Botsford, Jeroen Krabbe, Lynne Marie Stewart, Vyto Ruginis
Bored computer operator Terry Dolittle (Whoopi Goldberg) works at Manhattan's First National Bank and sends personal messages. She receives a reply from British spy Jack (Jonathan Pryce), using the code name "Jumpin' Jack Flash," who needs help getting out of the Soviet Union. Terry loves spy movies and decides to help Jack. Her decision results in her finding herself in the dangerous world of spies where she is kidnapped by the KGB and given truth serum. Will she be able to overcome her desperate situation and warn Jack in time for him to escape?
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King of the Gypsies 1978 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Pierson
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Shelley Winters, Susan Sarandon, Judd Hirsch, Eric Roberts, Brooke Shields, Annie Potts, Annette O'Toole, Michael V. Gazzo, Antonia Rey
Based on Peter Maas' novel, this story is about Dave (Eric Roberts), the grandson of gypsy King Zharko Stepanowicz (Sterling Hayden). Although he wants to forget his heritage, Dave is forced into a feud over who can claim the gypsy crown.
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Pretty in Pink 1986 PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Howard Deutch
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader, Jim Haynie, Emily Longstreth, Alexa Kenin, Andrew Dice Clay, Kate Vernon, Dweezil Zappa, Margaret Colin, Jamie Anders, Gina Gershon
High-school insecurities are portrayed in this film about Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) from the wrong side of the tracks. She lives with her father (Harry Dean Stanton) and runs around with Iona and Duckie (Annie Potts and Jon Cryer). Andie falls for rich kid Blane McDonnagh (Andrew McCarthy). Blane does ask her to the Senior Prom, but then his friends tease him about his choice for a date.
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Texasville 1990 R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Annie Potts, Timothy Bottoms, Cloris Leachman, Randy Quaid, Eileen Brennan, William McNamara, Angie Bolling, Pearl Jones
This sequel to "The Last Picture Show" features the same cast of characters who are now middle-aged and enjoying a reunion after 30 years.
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 Toy Story 1995  G, 81 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: John Lasseter
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, R. Lee Ermey, Laurie Metcalf, Erik von Detten, John Morris, Penn Jillette, Jack Angel, Sarah Freeman, Debi Derryberry
This animated film makes you forget that the toys living in Andy's room are not really alive. In this play-world society, everyone has a rank and station. Problems begin when toy cowboy Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) is threatened by Andy's (voice of John Morris) birthday gift: a futuristic plastic spaceman, Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen). Woody is determined to do away with his nemesis.
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 Toy Story 2 1999  G, 85 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, Kelsey Grammer, John Morris, Wayne Knight, Joan Cusack, Laurie Metcalf, Estelle Harris, Jodi Benson, R. Lee Ermey
While Andy (voice of John Morris) is off at summer camp, a greedy toy collector (voice of Wayne Knight), with plans to make big money, kidnaps Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) to complete his set of puppets from "Woody's Roundup." But all is not lost; Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen), Mr. Potato Head (voice of Don Rickles), Slinky Dog (voice of Jim Varney), Rex (voice of Wallace Shawn), and Hamm (voice of John Ratzenberger) spring to the rescue on a mission to retrieve Woody before Andy returns home.
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Who's Harry Crumb? 1989  PG-13, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Flaherty
Cast: John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Barry Corbin, Tim Thomerson, Shawnee Smith, James Belushi, Valri Bromfield, Joe Flaherty, Stephen Young
A wealthy heiress has been kidnapped, and the worst possible choice of detectives is working on the case. This "comedy" has very few laughs.
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| 1. Amazing Stories: Book 2 (1987)
2. Black Market Baby (1977)
aka: A Dangerous Love
aka: Don't Steal My Baby
3. Corvette Summer (1978)
4. Crimes of Passion (1984)
5. Elvis Has Left the Building (2004)
6. Ghostbusters (1984)
7. Ghostbusters II (1989)
8. Heartaches (1981)
9. Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
10. King of the Gypsies (1978)
11. Pretty in Pink (1986)
12. Texasville (1990)
13. Toy Story (1995)
14. Toy Story 2 (1999)
15. Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
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