Biography: Nicholas Meyer |
Director/writer Nicholas Meyer began his movie career in Hollywood's equivalent to the mailroom: a studio publicity department. After helping to promote Paramount's late-1960s product, Meyer took a job as a Warner Bros. story editor. He parlayed a... more
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Cast: Christopher Walken
Tags: Period Film Docudrama Drama
Length: 120min
Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded...
Cast: Jim McBride
Tags: Political Drama Drama Family Drama
Length: 105min
This made-for-cable drama concerns political unrest and personal crises set against the battle for a free Ireland in Belfast in 1983. Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy) is a member of the Irish Republican Army who, after serving a stretch in prison, is...
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Cast: James Doohan
Tags: Science Fiction Space Adventure Sci-Fi Action
Length: 110min
The plot involves a peace conference between the Federation of Planets and the troublesome Klingons. The Klingons are hoping to perform a little damage control after triggering a mining disaster on one of their moons; their spokesman is the seemingly...
Cast: Gene Hackman Mikhail Baryshnikov
Tags: Action Thriller Thriller
Length: 99min
The demise of the Cold War rendered this flat and obsolete spy thriller, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer, mute upon its release in 1991. Gene Hackman plays Sam Boyd, a retired CIA agent, now making ends meet by engaging in industrial espionage....
Cast: Pierce Brosnan
Tags: Historical Film Drama Adventure Docudrama Adventure Drama
Length: 112min
This historical drama, based on a novel by John Masters that was in turn inspired by actual events, follows William Savage (Pierce Brosnan), a British agent of the East India Company, as he is sent with his new wife to India in the early 19th century....
Cast: Tom Hanks
Tags: Odd Couple Film Comedy Buddy Film Adventure Comedy
Length: 107min
Tom Hanks and John Candy were reunited for the first time since Splash in this period comedy about Peace Corps worker during the optimistic period of the Kennedy presidency. Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks) is an upper-class heel who has to flee the...
Cast: Jason Robards, Jr. John Lithgow JoBeth Williams Amy Madigan Nicholas Meyer
Tags: Disaster Film Sci-Fi Disaster Film Drama Science Fiction Ensemble Film
Length: 126min
A peaceful Midwestern city attempts to recover after it is destroyed by a nuclear missile strike in this powerful and deeply disturbing testament to the folly of pro-military hawks who believed that annihilation was a justifiable means of attaining...
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Cast: DeForest Kelley Leonard Nimoy
Tags: Sci-Fi Action Space Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 113min
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is fondly regarded as being the closest in spirit to the 1966-69 TV series that spawned it. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) escapes the tedium of a desk job to join Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy...
Cast: David Warner Mary Steenburgen Malcolm McDowell
Tags: Chase Movie Fantasy Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction
Length: 120min
It's H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) versus Jack the Ripper (David Warner) in the fanciful Time After Time -- and, per the film's title, the chase extends from the 19th century to the 20th. Wells has built a time machine in his cellar, which the Ripper...
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