Baby It's You 1983  R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin, Jack Davidson, Frank Vincent, Fisher Stevens, Robert Downey Jr., Matthew Modine, Nick Ferrari, Leora Dana, Bill Raymond, Sam McMurray, Dolores Messina, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Marta Kober
The rich-girl-in-love-with-boy-from-the-other-side-of-the-tracks classic storyline is again used; this time however, it's the 1960s and Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) is an intelligent, college bound Jewish girl, and Albert 'Sheik' Capadilupo (Vincent Spano) is an Italian waiter with aspirations to become a singer. Good performances and script.
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Clinton and Nadine 1988   TV, 95 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Blood Money: The Story of Clinton and Nadine
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Cast: Andy Garcia, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman, Michael Lombard, John C. McGinley, Brad Sullivan, Alan North, Bill Raymond, Anthony Correa, Mario Ernesto Sanchez, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Helen Hanft
While looking for his brother's murderer, small-time smuggler Clinton (Andy Garcia) seeks help from call-girl Nadine (Ellen Barkin}. The couple gets more than they bargained for when they become involved in gun-smuggling to support the Contras in Nicaragua.
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 The Crow 1994  R, 98 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, David Patrick Kelly, Rochelle Davis, Michael Berryman, Jon Polito, Bill Raymond, Tony Todd, Angel David
Violence is the theme for this film, whose star Brandon Lee died from a gunshot wound during the actual filming. This is the story of a murder investigation in which the corpse (Brandon Lee) comes back from the dead in the form of a crow and avenges his own murder.
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A Death in the Family 2002 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gilbert Cates
Cast: Annabeth Gish, Austin Wolff, David Alford, John Slattery, Bill Raymond, James Cromwell, Dan Beene, Christopher Strand, Matthew Carlton, Mari Askew
This made-for-TV film is adapted from James Agee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel and is set in Knoxville, Tennessee, during 1915. Mary Follet (Annabeth Gish) and her seven-year-old son, Rufus (Austin Wolff), have problems coping when they hear the news that their husband/father Jay (John Slattery) has been killed in a car crash.
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Disappearances 2006 PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Jay Craven
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Charlie McDermott, Genevieve Bujold, Gary Farmer, Lothaire Bluteau, Heather Rae, Luis Guzman, William Sanderson, Rusty De Wees, John Griesemer, Munson Hicks, Mark Jenks, Bill Raymond, Christy Scott Cashman
In Kingdom County, Vermont, during 1932 Quebec Bill Bonhomme (Kris Kristofferson) decides to carry on the family bootlegging business after his family's finances are endangered following a barn fire. Bill teams up with his son Wild Bill (Charlie McDermott), his brother-in-law Henry (Gary Farmer), and hired hand Rat (William Sanderson) to take a job running whiskey across the border from Canada. There is one flaw in the plan: the whiskey they are carrying was first stolen by hijacking criminal Carcajou (Lothaire Bluteau), and he follows in hot pursuit with his black beard and white hair flowing. The foursome puts on monks' apparel and even steals a motorboat and a train in their effort to escape from the smuggler Carcajou who wants to retrieve "his" whiskey.
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Golden Years 1991  TV, 232 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Stephen King's Golden Years
Director: Josef Anderson
Cast: Keith Szarabajka, Felicity Huffman, Ed Lauter, R.D. Call, Bill Raymond, Frances Sternhagen, Matt Malloy, Adam Redfield, Jeff Williams, Peter McRobbie
There's secret stuff going on at the military laboratory. When an accident occurs, releasing chemicals, the old janitor (Keith Szarabajka) starts getting younger. Now, government agents are hot on his trail to find out how the chemical works. Originally a TV miniseries. Based on a Stephen King story.
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A Hole in One 2005 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Ledes
Cast: Michelle Williams, Tim Guinee, Meat Loaf, Wendell Pierce, Bill Raymond, Merritt Wever, Louis Zorich, Jonathan Watton, Mark Day, Ileen Getz, Gerry Mendicino
When Dr. Harold Ashton (Bill Raymond) comes to town promoting lobotomies, Anna (Michelle Williams) opts for a transorbital lobotomy as the solution to the depression she has suffered since the death of her brother. Anna's gangster boyfriend, Billy (Meat Loaf), asks a friend to pose as a neurologist, Dr. Tom Franklin (Tim Guinee), and convince Anna that she doesn't need surgery. The ploy works, but complications ensue when Tom falls in love with Anna.
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Michael Clayton 2007 R, 119 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Tony Gilroy
Cast: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Sean Cullen, Tom Wilkinson, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Ken Howard, Denis O'Hare, Robert Prescott, Austin Williams, Merritt Wever, David Lansbury, Bill Raymond, David Zayas
Corporate lawyer Michael Clayton (George Clooney) routinely gets damage control assignments from his Manhattan law firm, and when the firm's lead attorney Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) suffers a mental breakdown during a deposition, Clayton steps in to meet the largest challenge of his career. It appears that Eden has uncovered the fact that the company, U/North, he was representing was guilty of putting a carcinogenic pesticide on the market and claiming innocence. Meanwhile, U/North's chief counsel Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) steps in and offers a solution to relieve her employer from paying out billions. Will Clayton take the money and run, or will he stand firm in what he knows is right? The film received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Swinton); six other nominations included Best Picture, Actor (Clooney), Supporting Actor (Wilkinson), Supporting Actress (Swinton), and Director.
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My New Gun 1992 R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Stacy Cochran
Cast: Diane Lane, James LeGros, Stephen Collins, Tess Harper, Bruce Altman, Maddie Corman, Bill Raymond, Suzzy Roche, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Patti Chambers, Stephen Pearlman
Life for suburban housewife Debbie (Diane Lane) turns to chaos after her husband, Gerald (Stephen Collins), brings a .38 revolver home, and their oddball neighbor Skippy (James LeGros) helps himself to the gun.
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Quick Change 1990 R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Howard Franklin, Bill Murray
Cast: Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, Jason Robards, Jack Gilpin, Phil Hartman, Stanley Tucci, Bob Elliott, Bill Raymond, Victor Argo, Tony Shalhoub, Garry Goodrow
Grimm, Phyllis, and Loomis (Bill Murray, Geena Davis, and Randy Quaid) find that robbing a bank is relatively easy compared to the getaway. This movie, adapted from the 1981 novel by Jay Cronley, is a fast-paced, humorous film that has one wondering what will go wrong next.
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Spring Forward 1999 R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tom Gilroy
Cast: Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber, Campbell Scott, Ian Hart, Peri Gilpin, Bill Raymond, Catherine Kellner, Hallee Hirsh, Justin Laboy, Kristin Laboy
Murphy (Ned Beatty), who works for the Connecticut Parks and Recreation Department, becomes the mentor of a young man (Liev Schreiber) just recently released from the penitentiary. This compelling story takes place during one year as the two men, from very different backgrounds, bond through one-on-one conversations.
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Stranger in the Kingdom 1998 R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jay Craven
Cast: David Lansbury, Ernie Hudson, Martin Sheen, Bill Raymond, Sean Nelson, Rusty DeWees, Henry Gibson, Larry Pine, Tom Aldredge, Carrie Snodgress
A Vermont congregation hires a new minister, and when he shows up they are shocked to discover that he is Black. Matters slide steadily downhill for the Rev. Walter Andrews (Ernie Hudson) and for his teenage son, Nat (Sean Nelson), as well.
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True Identity 1991 R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles(3) Lane
Cast: Lenny Henry, Frank Langella, Charles(3) Lane, J.T. Walsh, James Earl Jones, Michael McKena, Melvin Van Peebles, Bill Raymond, Andreas Katsulas, Peggy Lipton
Miles Pope (Lenny Henry) is a New York actor who disguises himself as a white hit man to escape gangster Carver (Frank Langella). British comedian Lenny Henry really makes this movie work as he provides some good moments of humor.
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Twelve Monkeys 1995 R, 130 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: 12 Monkeys
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, Frank Gorshin, David Morse, Jon Seda, Joseph Melito, Simon Jones, Bill Raymond
The title of this film refers to a riddle, and a 21st-century prisoner (Bruce Willis) must solve it when he is sent back in time to 1996 to find a virus, named "Army of the 12 Monkeys," that now threatens human life in 2035. Brad Pitt received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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| 1. Baby It's You (1983)
2. Clinton and Nadine (1988)
aka: Blood Money: The Story of Clinton and Nadine
3. The Crow (1994)
4. A Death in the Family (2002)
5. Disappearances (2006)
6. Golden Years (1991)
aka: Stephen King's Golden Years
7. A Hole in One (2005)
8. Michael Clayton (2007)
9. My New Gun (1992)
10. Quick Change (1990)
11. Spring Forward (1999)
12. Stranger in the Kingdom (1998)
13. True Identity (1991)
14. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
aka: 12 Monkeys
15. Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)
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