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Reynaldo Villalobos
Reynaldo Villalobos II (born November 9, 1940) is an American cinematographer and director, noted for his dark and realistic cinematography. Reynaldo Villalobos is the father of American singer-songwriter Gina Villalobos. Select filmography * 1980: ''Urban Cowboy'' * 1980: ''9 to 5'' * 1981: ''The Children Nobody Wanted'' * 1982: ''The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez'' * 1983: ''Risky Business'' * 1984: ''Blame It on Rio'' * 1984: ''Mike's Murder'' * 1984: '' Windy City'' * 1985: '' Deadly Intentions'' * 1986: ''Lucas'' * 1986: ''Desert Bloom'' * 1986: ''Band of the Hand'' * 1986: ''A Smoky Mountain Christmas'' * 1988: ''Punchline'' * 1989: '' Major League'' * 1990: ''Coupe de Ville'' * 1990: ''Sibling Rivalry'' * 1991: ''Conagher'' (director) * 1992: ''American Me'' * 1993: ''A Bronx Tale'' * 1993: ''Roosters'' * 1994: '' PCU'' * 1997: '' Loved'' * 1997: ''Hollywood Confidential'' (director) * 1997: ''Romy and Michele's High School Reunion'' * 1997: ''Telling Lies in America'' * 1997 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desert Bloom (film)
''Desert Bloom'' is a 1986 American drama film directed by Eugene Corr and starring an ensemble cast led by Jon Voight and JoBeth Williams. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and funded through the Sundance Film Festival Institute. Plot Six years after World War II has ended, Jack Chismore, a veteran suffering from PTSD, runs a gas station in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jack is married to Lily, and stepfather to Lily's three daughters including Rose, a teenager at an impressionable age. Lily's sister, Starr, has come to Las Vegas for a quick divorce and comes to live with them, upsetting the routine of what is already a small and cramped house. Lily lands a job with the Atomic Testing Office and cannot tell Jack or the girls when the military is conducting atomic-bomb testing in the desert region nearby. This embitters and frustrates Jack, who takes his anger out on Rose many times. When Rose runs away, it is Jack who shows the most courag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood Confidential
''Hollywood Confidential'' is a 1997 television film directed by Reynaldo Villalobos. It won an ALMA Award in 1998. Plot Cast * Edward James Olmos as Stan Navarro, Sr. * Rick Aiello as Joey Di Rosa * Angela Alvarado as Teresa * Christine Harnos as Shelly Katz * A. Day Henden as * Richard T. Jones as Dexter * Brendan Kelly as Mike Mooney * Charlize Theron as Sally * Thomas Jane as Lee * Evelina Fernández as Mrs. Navarro * Valarie Rae Miller as C.C. * Marissa Ribisi as Zoey Production ''Hollywood Confidential'' was a pilot for a TV series by Paramount, which would have begun airing in 1996. The pilot would instead air as a stand-alone TV movie on Paramount's UPN The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that launched on January 16, 1995. It was originally owned by Chris-Craft Industries' United Television. Viacom (through its Paramount Television unit, which pr ... in April 1997. Despite the title, it bears no relation to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loved (film)
''Loved'' is a 1997 film directed by Erin Dignam and starring Robin Wright Penn and William Hurt. Plot After a husband is accused of driving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda—a troubled woman who can't hate or hurt others even if they had wronged her—is subpoenaed to testify on his abusive behavior during their marriage. Cast * Robin Wright Penn as Hedda Amerson * William Hurt as K.D. Dietrickson * Amy Madigan as Brett Amerson * Anthony Lucero as The Defendant * Paul Dooley as Leo Amerson * Lucinda Jenney as Kate Amerson * Joanna Cassidy as Elenore Amerson * Sean Penn as Michael Reception ''Radio Times'' rated it one star, saying, "No doubt all the people involved in this project had their hearts and best intentions in the right place, but this drama ultimately fumbles the sensitive subject of domestic violence." See also * List of American films of 1997 *List of drama films *List of thriller films of the 1990s A list of thriller films released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PCU (film)
''PCU'' is a 1994 American comedy film written by Adam Leff and Zak Penn and directed by Hart Bochner about college life at the fictional Port Chester University, and represents "an exaggerated view of contemporary college life". The film is based on the experiences of Leff and Penn at Eclectic Society at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.DVD Director's commentary Plot Preppy pre-freshman (''pre-frosh'') Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University (PCU), a college where fraternities have been outlawed and political correctness is rampant. During his visit, accident-prone Tom makes enemies with nearly every group of students, and thus spends much of his visit evading the growing mob after him. During his visit, Tom finds himself in the middle of a war between "The Pit" and "Balls and Shaft", two rival groups. Among the members of the latter is Rand McPherson, who, with the other Balls and Shaft members, want the outlawed Greek system to return. Meanwhile, "The Pit" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosters (1993 Film)
''Roosters'' is a 1993 American dramatic film with a screenplay by Milcha Sanchez-Scott that is adapted from her play of the same name. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 1993 before being released in the United States in 1995. Plot Gallo Morales (Olmos) returns home after being imprisoned for seven years for murdering a man over a cockfight. His family welcomes him back with mixed feelings. While his daughter Angela (Lassez) is eager to have him back, his son Hector (Nucci) feels otherwise. Hector desires to leave behind the farm and wants to use the family's prize-winning cock, which he has inherited from his grandfather, to win money in order to move his family away. However, Gallo has returned from prison determined to continue the business and to raise a new flock of roosters. Hector and Gallo soon clash over their differing goals. Cast * Edward James Olmos as Gallo Morales * Sônia Braga as Juana Morales * María Conchita Alonso as Chata * Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Bronx Tale
''A Bronx Tale'' is a 1993 American coming-of-age crime film directed by and starring Robert De Niro in his directorial debut and produced by Jane Rosenthal, adapted from Chazz Palminteri's 1989 play of the same name. It tells the coming of age story of an Italian-American boy, Calogero, who, after encountering a local Mafia boss, is torn between the temptations of organized crime and the values of his honest, hardworking father, as well as racial tensions in his community. The Broadway production was converted to film with limited changes, and starred Palminteri and De Niro. De Niro, who first viewed the play in Los Angeles in 1990, acquired the rights from Palminteri, intent on making the play his directorial debut. The duo then worked heavily together on the screenplay, with Palminteri aiming to retain many of the aspects of the original script, as it was based largely on his own childhood. Production began in 1991, and was funded in collaboration with De Niro's TriBeCa Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Me
''American Me'' is a 1992 American crime drama film produced and directed by Edward James Olmos, his first film as a director, and written by Floyd Mutrux and Desmond Nakano. Olmos also stars as the film's protagonist, Montoya Santana, loosely based on mob boss Rodolfo Cadena. Executive producers included record producer Lou Adler, screenwriter Mutrux, and Irwin Young. It depicts a fictionalized account of the founding and rise to power of the Mexican Mafia in the California prison system from the 1950s into the 1980s. Plot The film depicts 30 years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles. The story opens up with the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, depicting a young Latino couple Esperanza and Pedro Santana being racially targeted by sailors. Pedro is taken out to the streets and beaten alongside other Latin-Americans having their clothing ripped and torn, while Esperanza is gang raped by the sailors. The story transitions to years later in 1959 and focuses on the Santana family's eldest s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conagher
''Conagher'' is a 1991 American Western made-for-television film based on the 1969 Louis L'Amour novel of the same name co-produced and distributed by Turner Network Television. Plot The film opens with the Teale family moving west on a wagon into Indian Territory. They reach their home, and plan to go into the cattle business. The father, Jacob, rides out to procure the cattle, promising to return in a month. However, he is killed along the way when his horse falls over on him, and he bleeds to death internally. Meanwhile, a stagecoach passes by the Teale farm; Evie Teale agrees to work for the stagecoach by feeding customers. One of the men on the stagecoach warns Evie of a man named Conn Conagher, who he claims is a fierce gunfighter. One day, Conagher and his partner Mahler, stop at the Teale farm for food. The farm later comes under attack by Indians. The stagecoach arrives again in the middle of the gunfight and the drivers and the passengers help defend the farm. The de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibling Rivalry (film)
''Sibling Rivalry'' is a 1990 black comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Kirstie Alley, Sam Elliott, Jami Gertz, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher, and Scott Bakula. Plot Marjorie Turner has been married for eight years and is tired of her husband Harry's neglect and his snooty relatives, most of them doctors. One day her sister, Jeanine, urges her to break out of her rut and have a fling. At a grocery store, Marjorie allows herself to be picked up for a quick sexual tryst. Unfortunately, her lover dies during the act. Even more unfortunately, the dead man turns out to be Harry's long-absent brother Charles. Complications ensue, some of them involving a vertical blinds salesman named Nick. He was in the hallway, wanting to get into a room to install blinds so he could convince the hotel to invest in them. When Marjorie leaves the room, she inadvertantly both drops her wallet and leaves the door ajar. Thinking he's in luck, Nick gets to work hanging the blinds. Halfway th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coupe De Ville (film)
''Coupe de Ville'' is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Joe Roth. It stars Daniel Stern, Arye Gross, and Patrick Dempsey as three very different brothers asked by their father to drive a 1954 Cadillac convertible from Detroit to Miami. Plot Meet the Libner brothers: Marvin, the oldest, is a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Buddy, the middle child, is a timid dreamer. Bobby, the youngest, is a handsome rebel in reform school. As kids, they fought a lot and as adults, they barely speak to each other. In the summer of 1963, their tough and eccentric father, Fred, gives them a task: to bring a 1954 Cadillac convertible, bought for their mother, Betty, from Detroit to Miami. As the trip goes on, the three brothers fight and begin to reconnect with each other while trying to keep the Caddy in mint condition. Cast Production Despite the film's title, the 1954 two-door Cadillac Series 62 convertible in the movie is not an early generation Coupe De Ville; in 1954, the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League (film)
''Major League'' is a 1989 American sports comedy film produced by Chris Chesser and Irby Smith, written and directed by David S. Ward, that stars Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, James Gammon, Bob Uecker, Rene Russo, Margaret Whitton, Dennis Haysbert, and Corbin Bernsen. Made for $11 million, ''Major League'' grossed $75 million worldwide. ''Major League'' deals with the exploits of a fictionalized version of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. It is the first installment in the ''Major League'' film series and spawned two sequels (''Major League II'' and '' Major League: Back to the Minors''), neither of which repeated the success of the original film. Plot Former Las Vegas showgirl Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians baseball team from her deceased husband. She hates Cleveland and intends to move the team to Miami by exploiting an escape clause in their contract if their season attendance remains low. She instructs general manager Charlie Donovan to fire t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
