Biography: Nicholas Pryor |
American character actor Nicholas Pryor has played his share of weak or ineffectual characters, but can exert authority and strength if the need arises. One of the busiest actors on the daytime-drama scene, Pryor has been a regular on such soapers as
Cast: Sam Shepard
Tags: Docudrama Animal Picture Drama Sports Drama
Length: 89min
Prolific French filmmaker Yves Simoneau directs Sam Shepard and Frank Whaley in a sports drama detailing the remarkable racing career of the horse many believe to be the finest thoroughbred filly ever to run the tracks. In her first ten runs Ruffian...
Cast: George Kennedy Bill Pullman Bill Paxton Bud Cort
Tags: Psychological Thriller Horror Science Fiction Drama
Length: 85min
Brain Dead was based on a script by Charles Beaumont, leading some obtuse fans to hail the "return" of that frequent Twilight Zone contributor. Actually Beaumont has been dead since 1967, so this cookie spent a long time in the oven. Stalwart...
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987)
Cast: Bernard Herrmann Lynn Redgrave Jon Cryer Paul Gleason
Tags: Teen Movie Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 96min
An ambitious father thinks nothing of using his own son to achieve his political goals in this adolescent comedy. The lonely boy has spent the last seven years tucked away and ignored by his parents, Senator Tom Morgan and his social-climbing wife...
Second Sight: A Love Story (1984)
Cast: Richard Romanus John Korty Elizabeth Montgomery
Tags: Romance Drama Medical Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 100min
If Elizabeth Montgomery must continue to play put-upon women in her TV movies, it cannot be denied that she possesses the superior talents to pull it off. In Second Sight: A Love Story, Ms. Montgomery portrays a woman who has been blind for 20 years....
Cast: William Schallert Madeleine Stowe Stella Stevens
Length: 100min
This made-for-TV fantasy was directed by former Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser. In one of her earliest roles, Madeleine Stowe plays Dr. Sharon Fields, who stumbles upon a secret plot by a covert organization of women to take over the world...
Cast: Bruce Dern Charles Chaplin Melanie Griffith Michael Ritchie Geoffrey Lewis
Length: 113min
The American beauty-contest ritual is skewered by screenwriter Jerry Belson and director Michael Ritchie in Smile. The film takes place during an annual pageant in Santa Rosa, CA. The event is supervised by local mover and shaker Brenda DiCarlo...
Tags: Drama
Length: 110min
In this drama, a Madison Avenue advertising executive has a mid-life crisis and leaves his wife and daughter to embark upon a series of love affairs. Among his conquests are a professional dancer, a television executive, and a married ex-girl friend....
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