12:01 1993  TV, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Sholder
Cast: Jonathan Silverman, Helen Slater, Martin Landau, Nicolas Surovy, Robin Bartlett, Jeremy Piven, Constance Marie, Glenn Morshower, Paxton Whitehead
Barry Thomas (Jonathan Silverman) is an office worker who, after work, witnesses the murder of coworker Lisa (Helen Slater). Later, at 12:01 AM, he gets shocked from a faulty lamp wire during a storm. The next morning he notes that the previous day is being repeated, and the same occurs for the succeeding days. He realizes that he will be caught up in time until he stops the murder.
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Adventures of Huck Finn 1993 PG, 108 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Drama
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Elijah Wood, Courtney B. Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards, Ron Perlman, Dana Ivey, Anne Heche, Curtis Armstrong, Frances Conroy, James Gammon, Paxton Whitehead, Tom Eldredge, Laura Bell Bundy, Mary Louise Wilson, Danny Tamberelli
This production stays close to the first half of Mark Twain's novel. The con-men, "the King" (Jason Robards) and "the Duke" (Robbie Coltrane), are played well with hints of humor as they impersonate royalty and try to swindle two sisters (Anne Heche and Laura Bell Bundy) out of their fortune. Meanwhile, the innocent boy, Huck (Elijah Wood), has escaped from his brutal father, Pap (Ron Perlman), and has joined escaped slave Jim (Courtney B. Vance) on a rafting trip down the Mississippi River. Huck and Jim develop an understanding of each other and then run into "the King" and "the Duke" along the way. It doesn't take long for Huck and Jim to be drawn reluctantly into the schemes of "the King" and "the Duke."
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Back to School 1986  PG-13, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Metter
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Robert Downey Jr., Paxton Whitehead, M. Emmet Walsh, Adrienne Barbeau, Ned Beatty, Severn Darden, Terry Farrell, William Zabka, Sam Kinison, Robert Picado, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The inhibited son of an offensive millionaire is humiliated when his father enrolls in his university in order to help him achieve popularity. Eventually, they gain understanding of each other as their celebrity grows. Rodney Dangerfield, as the father, actually gets respect.
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 Kate & Leopold 2001 PG-13, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Breckin Meyer, Natasha Lyonne, Bradley Whitford, Philip Bosco, Paxton Whitehead, Spalding Gray, Charlotte Ayanna
Stressed-out marketing executive Kate (Meg Ryan) meets her true love, Leopold (Hugh Jackman)–never mind that he has arrived into the present from the Victorian era of 1878! A good comedy about time travel.
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London Suite 1996  TV, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Neil Simon's London Suite
Director: Jay Sandrich
Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jonathan Silverman, Madeline Kahn, Richard Mulligan, Patricia Clarkson, Julie Hagerty, Kristen Johnston, Jane Carr, Paxton Whitehead, Margot Steinberg
In this made-for-TV sequel to "California Suite" (1978), Neil Simon has placed his characters in a London hotel where four different stories are told.
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Wakko's Wish 1999 G, 80 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Musical / Fantasy
Director: Liz Holzman, Rusty Mills, Tom Ruegger
Cast: Jess Harnell, Rob Paulsen, Tress MacNeille, Jeff Bennett, Julie Brown, Maurice LaMarche, Ben Stein, Bernadette Peters, Chick Vennera, Sherri Stoner, Frank Welker, Nancy Cartwright, Paxton Whitehead, Tom Bodett
In this spinoff of the TV series, the first full-length "animaniacs" movie, the gang follows a wishing star that has fallen to Earth. OK family fare, which is not as "wakky" as the series.
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| 1. 12:01 (1993)
2. Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
3. Back to School (1986)
4. Kate & Leopold (2001)
5. London Suite (1996)
aka: Neil Simon's London Suite
6. Wakko's Wish (1999)
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