Biography: Craig Bierko |
Following an early career that mainly included small parts on Empty Nest, Murphy Brown, and other assorted sitcoms, Craig Bierko made a number of unsuccessful stabs at stardom in feature films with leading-man roles in the poorly received comedies
Cast: David Zucker Bob Weinstein Charlie Sheen
Tags: Comedy Absurd Comedy Horror Comedy Gross-Out Comedy Parody/Spoof
Length: 83min
Spoof series torch-bearer and Airplane! mastermind David Zucker steps back into the captain's chair for yet another round of cinematic shenanigans in the latest installment of the Scary Movie franchise, this time mocking such frightful blockbusters as...
Tags: Horror Psychological Thriller
Length: 79min
When a devoted mother and wife begins to experience a series of intensely terrifying visions, she soon begins to question her own sanity in a deeply unsettling psychological thriller from first-time feature filmmaker Ariel Vromen. By day Danika...
Cast: Renée Zellweger Ron Howard Russell Crowe
Tags: Drama Sports Drama Period Film Biopic
Length: 144min
The true story of an athlete who achieved his greatest success against the most daunting odds of his life is brought to the screen in this historical drama. In the 1920s, James Braddock (Russell Crowe) from Bergen, NJ, was a promising contender in...
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)
Cast: Adam Sandler
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Showbiz Comedy
Length: 99min
In keeping with his background in television sitcoms, Sam Weisman directs the cameo-filled comedy Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. Dickie Roberts (David Spade) was a child actor on the hit TV show "The Glimmer Gang" and remains remembered for a...
Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl Dennis Haysbert
Tags: Tech Noir Science Fiction
Length: 120min
The increasingly blurry lines between what is real and what is an artificial construct - both physically and philosophically - are the point of focus in the science fiction drama The Thirteenth Floor. In 1937, a man named Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl)...
Cast: Ben Stiller
Tags: Comedy Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 81min
Answering the question of "Where have all the New Wavers gone?" is The Suburbans, a comedy from first-time director Donal Lardner Ward, who also stars and co-wrote the screenplay. In 1981, power pop band The Suburbans had it all -- big hair, skinny...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Cast: Benicio Del Toro Gary Busey Johnny Depp Terry Gilliam Cameron Diaz Christina Ricci
Tags: Road Movie Art Film Comedy Buddy Film Black Comedy Absurd Comedy
Length: 119min
Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic 21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the...
Cast: Larry David
Tags: Comedy Screwball Comedy Comedy of Manners Black Comedy
Length: 91min
Sitcom veteran Larry David, the co-creator of TV's Seinfeld, made his big-screen directorial debut with this clever comedy featuring distinct Seinfeld overtones. Sour Grapes was released April 17, 1998, only four weeks prior to the last Seinfeld...
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Cast: Geena Davis Samuel L. Jackson Brian Cox
Tags: Action Thriller Action Thriller
Length: 120min
An ordinary woman discovers that her life was not always ordinary in this action thriller. Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a typical, well-mannered single mother working as a schoolteacher when she isn't looking after her children. Nothing on the...
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