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Molly Mayeux
Molly M. Mayeux is an American producer. She got her start as a production runner on the film Everybody's All-American in 1988. As of 2012, she is credited in the production of more than 40 films. She is the founder and president of Dahlia Street Films. Filmography Producer *'' Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede'' (producer) *''Blind Turn'' (producer) *'' Deadline'' (producer) *''I Will Follow'' (producer) *''Open Gate'' (producer) *''Homeland'' (line producer) *'' Soccer Mom'' (line producer) *''The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond'' (line producer) *'' Rain'' (producer) *''The Strand (co-producer) *'' Two Weeks'' (line producer) *''Wasted'' (line producer) *''Open Window'' (line producer) *''The Hand Job'' (producer) *'' Dandelion'' (producer) *''Easy'' (co-producer) *''Rustin'' (2001 film) (producer) *'' Dancing in September'' (line producer) *''The Hi-Line'' (producer) *''Savior'' (associate producer) *''I Shot a Man in Vegas'' (producer) Second Unit Director or Assistant D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Holly Is Alive And Well On Ganymede
''Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede'' is a 1991 comedic science fiction novel by Bradley Denton. Plot Oliver Vale was conceived on February 3, 1959, the day that iconic rock & roll singer Buddy Holly died. Exactly thirty years later, Buddy Holly appears on every television set in the world, on every channel. Holly states that he is being held on Ganymede, and that Oliver Vale is to be contacted for assistance. He then begins performing. As a result, Vale finds himself being pursued by agents of the Federal Communications Commission, by angry television watchers, and by still more mysterious forces. Reception ''Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede'' won the 1992 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.The John W. Campbell Award at the Center for the Study of Science Fict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Road To Wellville (film)
''The Road to Wellville'' is a 1994 American comedy-drama film adaptation of T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel of the same name, which tells the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the beginning of the 20th century. The film was written and directed by Alan Parker. The film stars Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Kellogg, Matthew Broderick as William Lightbody, Bridget Fonda as his spouse Eleanor, John Cusack as Charles Ossining, Dana Carvey as the doctor's adopted son George, and Colm Meaney as Dr. Lionel Badger. It was filmed in New Paltz, New York at the Mohonk Mountain House. Other locations were the North Carolina towns of Winnabow and Wilmington. Plot Dr. John Harvey Kellogg opened a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he practiced his unusual methods for maintaining health, including colonic irrigation, electrical stimulus and sexual abstinence, vegetarianism and physical exercise. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diary Of A Mad Black Woman (film)
''Diary of a Mad Black Woman'' is a 2005 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Darren Grant and written by Tyler Perry. Inspired by the play of the same name, it marks the debut feature film of Perry, in addition to being the first entry in the Madea film franchise. The film stars Perry alongside Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore, and Cicely Tyson. The film tells the story of a woman who is thrown out of her house by her husband on their 18th wedding anniversary as she moves in with her grandmother. This was the only Tyler Perry scripted film not to be directed by Tyler Perry. Filming began on July 21, 2004 in Atlanta and Fairburn, Georgia. ''Diary of a Mad Black Woman'' was released theatrically by Lionsgate Films on February 25, 2005. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics, but it was a box office success, having grossed $50.7 million worldwide against a $5.5 million budget. The sequel, ''Madea's Family Reunion'', was released on February 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everybody's All-American (film)
''Everybody's All-American'' is a 1988 American sports drama film, released internationally as ''When I Fall in Love'', directed by Taylor Hackford and based on the 1981 novel '' Everybody's All-American'' by longtime ''Sports Illustrated'' contributor Frank Deford. The film covers 25 years in the life of a college football hero. It stars Dennis Quaid, Jessica Lange, Timothy Hutton and John Goodman. Plot Gavin Grey is a 1950s star athlete known by the moniker "The Grey Ghost," who plays football at the ictionalUniversity of Louisiana. His campus girlfriend Babs Rogers, nephew Donnie "Cake" McCaslin, and teammate Ed Lawrence adore his personality and charm. During the Sugar Bowl game, Gavin's play, defining his competitiveness throughout his career, causes a player from the opposing team to fumble the ball, which he returns to score a game-winning touchdown. As his college days come to an end, Gavin ends up marrying Babs, starts a family, and gets drafted by the Washington Redsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scenes From The Class Struggle In Beverly Hills
''Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills'' is a 1989 American black comedy film co-written and directed by Paul Bartel. The film re-unites Bartel with his '' Eating Raoul'' co-stars Mary Woronov and Robert Beltran. It also stars Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Ed Begley Jr., Wallace Shawn, Paul Mazursky, and Rebecca Schaeffer. Schaeffer's appearance in the film served as the catalyst for her murder one month after its release. Plot Recently widowed Clare, a former television sitcom star, invites her next-door neighbor Lisabeth to stay with her while Lisabeth's house is fumigated. Lisabeth's brother Peter, a playwright, arrives with his new bride To-Bel, an African-American woman. To-Bel had a fling in Hawaii with Howard, Lisabeth's ex-husband, who shows up unexpectedly and begs Lisabeth to take him back. (To-Bel — who had no idea she slept with Lisabeth's ex-husband before marrying her brother — describes the coincidence as "a freaky little act of God.") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Versus The Volcano
''Joe Versus the Volcano'' is a 1990 American romantic comedy film written and directed by John Patrick Shanley and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Hanks plays a man who, after being told he is dying of a rare disease, accepts a financial offer to travel to a South Pacific island and throw himself into a volcano on behalf of the superstitious natives. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the woman taking him there. The film received mixed reviews overall, but positive reviews from some critics, including Roger Ebert, who described the film as "new and fresh and not shy of taking chances", and was a minor box office success in the US. It has since become a cult film. Plot Joe Banks is a downtrodden everyman from Staten Island, working a clerical job in a dreary factory for an unpleasant, demanding boss, Frank Waturi. Joyless, listless and chronically sick, Banks regularly visits doctors who can find nothing wrong with him. Finally, a Dr. Ellison diagnoses an incurable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shout (film)
''Shout'' is a 1991 American musical romance film directed by Jeffrey Hornaday and starring John Travolta as a music teacher who introduces rock and roll to a west Texas home for boys in 1955. The film also features James Walters, Heather Graham, Richard Jordan, Linda Fiorentino, Scott Coffey, Charles Taylor, and Glenn Quinn as well as an early role for Gwyneth Paltrow. Plot The first half of the film is set at Benedict Boys Home. Jesse Tucker and his four friends live under the strict guidance of headmaster Eugene Benedict who has a lovely daughter Sara. Music teacher Jack Cabe introduces them to Rock and Roll until headmaster Benedict threatens to fire Cabe. Cabe instructs the boys to get a radio and listen to the show Midnight Rider. Jesse bets with the guys that he would have sex with Sara, but instead falls in love with her. They go to the club where they see people enjoying rock n roll to the hilt and Jesse gets inspired and gives an impressive performance on stage. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hook (film)
''Hook'' is a 1991 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. It stars Robin Williams as Peter Banning / Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook, Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell, Bob Hoskins as Mr. Smee, and Maggie Smith as Granny Wendy. It acts as a sequel of sorts to J. M. Barrie's 1911 novel ''Peter and Wendy'' focusing on an adult Peter Pan who has forgotten all about his childhood. In his new life, he is known as Peter Banning, a successful but unimaginative and workaholic lawyer with a wife (Wendy's granddaughter) and two children. However, when Captain Hook, the enemy of his past, kidnaps his children, he returns to Neverland to save them. Along the journey, he reclaims the memories of his past and becomes a better person. Spielberg began developing ''Hook'' in the early 1980s with Walt Disney Productions and Paramount Pictures, which would have followed the Peter Pan storyline seen in the 1924 silent fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost In The Machine (film)
''Ghost in the Machine'' is a 1993 American science fiction horror film directed by Rachel Talalay and released by 20th Century Fox about a deceased serial killer with artificial computer intelligence. Plot While working at a computer store in Cleveland, Ohio, serial killer Karl Hochman (Ted Marcoux), known as "The Address Book Killer" due to habitually stealing address books and choosing his victims from them, obtains Terry Munroe's (Karen Allen) address book, due to the store manager, who is demonstrating a scanner, copying a page of her address book into a computer, allowing Karl access to it. On a rainy night while heading home, Karl hurriedly drives into an oncoming lane and swerves to miss a truck. This causes his car to go off the road into a cemetery, all while he laughs like a maniac. In the emergency room, he is put into an MRI machine. A surge from an electrical storm manages to transfer his soul into a computer. Now, as a network-based entity, Karl continues to plot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best Of The Best (1989 Film)
''Best of the Best'' is a 1989 American martial arts film directed by Bob Radler, and produced by Phillip Rhee, who also co-wrote the story and co-stars in the film. The film starred Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Simon Rhee and Chris Penn. The plot revolves around a team of American martial artists facing a team of South Korean martial artists in a martial arts tournament. Several subplots pop up in the story — moral conflicts, the power of the human spirit triumphing over adversity and the meaning of life are some themes. Set and filmed in Los Angeles, California, and Seoul, South Korea, between February 13 and April 6, 1989, ''Best of the Best'' was released on November 10, 1989. The film has spawned three sequels: ''Best of the Best 2'' (1993), ''Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back'' (1995), and ''Best of the Best 4: Without Warning'' (1998). Phillip Rhee portrays Tommy Lee in all four films, produced all of them, directed the third and fourth films, and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driving Me Crazy (film)
''Trabbi Goes to Hollywood'' (English title: ''Driving Me Crazy'') is a 1991 American comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Thomas Gottschalk, Billy Dee Williams, Michelle Johnson, Dom DeLuise, and James Tolkan. Plot Gunther Schmidt (Thomas Gottschalk) is a young, eccentric East German inventor who ( like many others) attempts to flee across the border to the West using his inventions, but constantly meets with failure. Finally, he constructs a gadget which actually works: a modified Trabant ("Trabbi") with a motor running on turnip juice, making it ultimately environmental but still capable of attaining a speed of up to 250 km/h. But by the time his invention is perfected, East and West Germany are reunited, rendering the Trabbi's role as an escape vehicle obsolete. As Western capitalism moves into Gunther's hometown Engelswald, American tycoon John McReady (George Kennedy), who intends to buy the town to erect a factory there, invites him to go to an Automob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leather Jackets (film)
''Leather Jackets'' is a 1992 film directed and written by Lee Drysdale in his directorial debut. It was shot on Highland Park, Los Angeles, California in 1990. The film stars D. B. Sweeney, Bridget Fonda and Cary Elwes. Cast * D. B. Sweeney as Mickey * Bridget Fonda as Claudi * Judy Trevor as Mrs. Little * Cary Elwes as Dobbs * James LeGros as Carl * Neil Giuntoli as Sammy * Phil Chong as Vietnamese Bookie * Jeff Imada as Hood #1 * Al Goto as Hood #2 * April Tran as Vietnamese Grocer * Jon Polito as Jack "Fat Jack" * Joe Lewis as Barfly * Heather Haase as Student Girl #1 (Julie) * Mary Ella Ross as Student Girl #2 * Michael Champion as Costello * Marshall Bell as The Stranger * Chris Penn as Steve "Big Steve" * Craig Ng as Tron * Bill Ryusaki , nationality = People of the United States, American , birth_date = , birth_place = Kamuela, Hawaii, US Torazo Ryusaki held black belts in both Kodokan Judo and Shotokan Karate, and made it mandato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
