Biography: James Russo |
Manhattan-born character actor and former professional gravedigger James Russo has been showing up in hard-bitten film supporting roles since 1981, and has worked alongside some of Hollywood's most prolific actors, including Al Pacino, Kevin Costner,
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Cast: James Russo Deborah Kara Unger Tim Roth
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 99min
Joey returns to his home in Staten Island and discovers that things changed dramatically while he was in prison. His mother died, and his brother Tommy married. Joey's former flame has also married and had kids. Big brother Tommy takes Joey in, much...
Cast: Kevin Costner
Tags: Science Fiction Sci-Fi Disaster Film Sci-Fi Action
Length: 177min
Kevin Costner directed and stars in this adaptation of David Brin's science fiction novel The Postman (1985), first published in 1982 issues of ~Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Costner's return to directing after his Oscar-winning Dances With...
Cast: Gary Busey Rod Steiger
Tags: Thriller Crime Drama
Length: 90min
This action-packed crime drama features one of the more interesting motives in the genre: the crooks plan a 1million caper to pay for a another young crook's liver transplant. The mayhem begins as Dexter is yet again hauled to jail after the police...
Tags: Prison Film Thriller
Length: 83min
In this gritty prison thriller, a passionate prison guard finds himself intimate with a sexy inmate and trouble ensues. The guard, Dan Cappelli, works in a Philadelphia jail. He has a hair-trigger violent temper and after brutally defending a fellow...
Cast: Jerry Goldsmith Drew Barrymore Andie MacDowell Robert Loggia Jonathan Kaplan Mary Stuart Masterson Madeleine Stowe
Tags: Western Feminist Film Buddy Film Revisionist Western
Length: 99min
Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Drew Barrymore are the stars of this Western whose main gimmick is making heroes into heroines. They all start out as prostitutes, as Cody (Stowe) shoots a drunken colonel who attempts to...
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime Thriller
Length: 89min
Two honest men discover how high the stakes can be when they turn against the law in this hriller. Nick Hollit (Jack Scalia) and Ray Ramirez (Eddie Velez) are a pair of police detectives who have played by the rules all their lives, but have little...
Cast: Harvey Keitel
Tags: Drama Marriage Drama
Length: 107min
Celebrated indie filmmaker Eddie Israel (Harvey Keitel) heads to California to shoot his latest movie, Mother of Mirrors, an examination of a marriage in which the wife pressures her husband to abandon their formerly mutual sex-and-drugs lifestyle and...
Cast: Mel Harris
Tags: Thriller
Length: min
Anxious for revenge against the corporation that has refused to promote her, an ambitious secretary beguiles a naive stockbroker into helping her enact a deadly plan. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Cast: Clancy Brown Mariel Hemingway
Length: 100min
Like its theatrical-feature precursor Not Without My Daughter, the made-for-TV Desperate Rescue is based on a true story, though it would appear that several liberties have been taken. Mariel Hemingway plays a young mother whose daughter Lindsay Haun...
Cast: James Coburn
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 93min
When Charlie Thorpe, an MIT-educated security systems expert and convicted cat-burglar, gets out of prison, he promises himself to go straight. Yet when a psycho he knew from prison kidnaps his girlfriend, he is forced back into the crime game. ~...
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