Down to Earth 2001  PG-13, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Cast: Chris Rock, Regina King, Chazz Palminteri, Eugene Levy, Frankie Faison, Mark Addy, Greg Germann, Jennifer Coolidge, Wanda Sykes, John Cho, Brian Rhodes, Mario Joyner, Arnold Pinnock, Paul Hecht, Colin Fox
Comedian Lance Barton (Chris Rock) is hit by a truck and, only after reaching Heaven, learns that he was not supposed to die this early. Angels offer him a second chance at life on Earth, but he must return in the body of wealthy, White, elderly Charles Wellington whose wife (Jennifer Coolidge) and personal aide (Greg Germann) have just murdered him. Lance's soul is placed in Charles Wellington's body. When Lance meets Sontee (Regina King), he falls in love, but he must still deal with Wellington's wife and aide and their plot to murder him once again. Will they stop Lance from achieving his dream of performing at the Apollo Theater?
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I'll Take Manhattan 1987 TV, 450 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Douglas Hickox, Richard Michaels
Cast: Valerie Bertinelli, Francesca Annis, Perry King, Jane Kaczmarek, Ken Olin, Jack Scalia, Barry Bostwick, Paul Hecht, Tim Daly, Robert Addie, Walter Gotell, Adam LeFevre
Based on a novel by Judith Krantz, this TV miniseries tells the story of Maxi's (Valerie Bertinelli) struggles to save her father's empire from her uncle (Perry King), who married her mother after her father's death and is now ruining the publishing business. A long "soaper."
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Joshua Then and Now 1985  R, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Cast: James Woods, Gabrielle Lazure, Michael Sarrazin, Alan Scarfe, Alexander Knox, Paul Hecht, Alan Arkin, Robert Joy, Linda Sorenson, Ken Campbell, Kate Trotter, Eric Kimmel, Chuck Shamata, Yuval Kernerman, Harvey Atkin
This is enjoyable fare as James Woods plays a Jewish writer whose small-time gangster father marries into a prominent, respected family.
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Last Call 2002 TV, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Bromell
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Neve Campbell, Sissy Spacek, Natalie Radford, Shannon Lawson, Paul Hecht, Kathleen Munroe, Brian Paul, Marium Carvell, Jonas Chernick, Joe Bostick, Eve Crawford
F. Scott Fitzgerald's (Jeremy Irons) secretary, Frances Kroll (Neve Campbell), wrote his memoirs spanning the two years (1939-1940) when she worked for the noted novelist. By this time, Fitzgerald was an alcoholic whose life was made even more difficult with a mentally ill wife (Sissy Spacek)–although he had an affair with columnist Sheila Graham (Natalie Radford) during this time. Despite the secretary's best efforts to intercede, Fitzgerald died at a young age. Made for cable TV.
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Private Parts 1997 R, 111 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Howard Stern's Private Parts
Director: Betty Thomas
Cast: Howard Stern, Robin Quivers, Mary McCormack, Paul Giamatti, Fred Norris, Jackie Martling, Gary Dell'Abate, Carol Alt, Richard Portnow, Kelly Bishop, Allison Janney, Michael Murphy, Paul Hecht, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Hadary
Howard Stern stars as himself in this comedy based on his 1993 autobiography of his rise from small-time DJ to the self-proclaimed "King of All Media." Both his professional and personal lives are revealed from his on-the-air bathroom humor that leads to clashes with radio station executives to his marriage to his understanding wife Alison (Mary McCormack).
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The Reincarnaton of Peter Proud 1975  R, 104 min.
Genre: Mystery / Horror
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Michael Sarrazin, Jennifer O'Neill, Margot Kidder, Cornelia Sharpe, Paul Hecht, Tony Stephano, Anne Ives, Norman Burton, Fred Stuthman, Steve Franken, Debralee Scott, Lester Fletcher, Jon Richards, Paul Nevens, Breanna Benjamin
College Professor Peter Proud (Michael Sarrazin) senses that he met a violent end in a previous life. Now, flashbacks draw him to a suburban town in Massachusetts where terror awaits.
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Threshold 1981 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Pearce
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Allan F. Nicholls, Mare Winningham, John Marley, Michael Lerner, Robert Joy, Paul Hecht, Sharon Acker, Jessica Steen, Deborah Turnbull
Utilizing the documentary approach, director Richard Pearce depicts the first artificial heart transplant–performed against the advice of the Ethics Committee chairman.
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| 1. Down to Earth (2001)
2. I'll Take Manhattan (1987)
3. Joshua Then and Now (1985)
4. Last Call (2002)
5. A New Life (1988)
6. OHMS (1980)
7. Private Parts (1997)
aka: Howard Stern's Private Parts
8. The Reincarnaton of Peter Proud (1975)
9. Threshold (1981)
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