Biography: Lane Smith |
Lane Smith attended the Actors Studio during its halcyon days of the late 1950s-early 1960s. Though he didn't go on to stardom like such Studio grads as Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino, Smith found steady work on the New York stage. In over 100 films... more
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Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 90min
Ron Burrus directed this low-budget romantic comedy, set in Boston. The lead role of Bostonian Christopher DiMarco is portrayed by Michael Landes (Jimmy Olson on Lois & Clark). After a blackout, the tux-clad Chris regains consciousness on the porch of...
Cast: Dianne Wiest Michael Ritchie Laszlo Kovacs Brendan Fraser
Tags: Comedy Drama Sports Comedy
Length: 101min
After several weeks filming The Scout in the late 1970s, star Peter Falk and director Howard Zieff abandoned the project. Two decades later, writer Andrew Bergman gave his original script to Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson, who polished it as a...
Cast: Carla Gugino
Tags: Comedy of Manners Domestic Comedy Comedy
Length: 95min
Meaning to thwart the advances of a hometown boy, a college student takes her California surfer roomie to her Midwestern home for Thanksgiving and passes him off as her husband-to-be. After a few complications, the visiting couple falls for each...
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Cast: Eddie Murphy Lane Smith James Garner Sheryl Lee Ralph
Tags: Comedy of Errors Political Satire Comedy
Length: 122min
A smooth-talking confidence trickster makes his way into congress (where the cynical would suggest he'd have plenty of company) in this comedy. Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Eddie Murphy) is a con man from Florida who gets the bright idea that a scam...
Cast: Stephen Herek
Tags: Comedy Family Sports Comedy
Length: 114min
This fill-in-the-blanks children's comedy from Disney was such a success that it spawned a number of fill-in-the-blanks sequels -- along with a real-life professional hockey team. The basic story -- outcast coach handles a team of outcast kids and...
Cast: Theodore Bikel
Length: 145min
The three-hour TV docudrama The Final Days was based on the Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein chronicle of President Richard M. Nixon's last months in the White House. Given his behavior during the entire Watergate imbroglio, Nixon cannot help but come off...
Cast: Lincoln Kilpatrick Renny Harlin
Tags: Horror Prison Film
Length: 102min
Prison guard Ethan Sharpe (Lane Smith) watched as Burke (Viggo Mortensen) dies in the electric chair in 1964. Over two decades later, Sharpe is the warden, and Burke returns from the dead to exact revenge on the wicked warden when the prison re-opens....
Tags: Rural Drama Drama Adventure Adventure Drama
Length: 96min
Made for television, A Place to Call Home is based on fact, incredible as it seems from first scene to last. Linda Lavin stars as a Houston mother of eleven children, whose husband decides to move one and all to an Australian sheep ranch in 1970....
Cast: Nick Nolte Joe Mantegna William Forsythe Angelo Badalamenti
Tags: Drama Prison Film Biopic
Length: 115min
In this film, based on a true story, convicted criminal Lee Umstetter (Nick Nolte) is sentenced to life in San Quentin prison, with no possibility of parole. Despairing at his interminable sentence, Lee spends his time reading and educating himself....
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