The Christmas Star (1986)
Drama | Family
A counterfeiter finds the true meaning of the holidays.
Starring: Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois, Jim Metzler, Susan Tyrrell, Karen Landry, Alan North, Philip Bruns
Director: Alan Shapiro
Gypsy (1993)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Musical
Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee, this made-for-TV movie-previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film-depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering mother.
Starring: Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Cynthia Gibb, Edward Asner, Christine Ebersole, Jennifer Rae Beck
Director: Emile Ardolino
The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)
Adventure | Biography | Documentary | Drama | History | War
Risking being denounced as an 'enemy of the people,' Igor Savitsky rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artists' works and creates in a far desert of Soviet Uzbekistan a museum now worth millions.
Starring: Edward Asner, Sally Field, Ben Kingsley
Director: Tchavdar Georgiev, Amanda Pope
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi
When a spaceship splashes down in Gotham Harbor, Batman and Superman encounter a mysterious Kryptonian with powers as great as Superman’s. When Darkseid gets wind of this, he has the Kryptonian abducted and brought under his control on Apokolips. It’s up to Batman and Superman to retrieve the Kryptonian, forcing them to infiltrate Darkseid’s hostile world where superpowerful threats lurk around every corner.
Starring: Summer Glau, Edward Asner, Andre Braugher, Tim Daly, Kevin Conroy, Susan Eisenberg
Director: Lauren Montgomery
Hard Rain / The Flood (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
In the worst storm in living memory, one guard stands between five men and three million dollars. Severe flooding threatens an Indiana town after a massive rainstorm taxes dams to the breaking point. As part of an emergency evacuation effort, armored car driver Tom and his uncle Charlie are recruited to collect cash from the town's banks and drive it to safety. However, a gang of thieves led by Jim plan to lay siege to the truck and steal the $3 million on board. After Jim attempts to ambush the truck, Tom hides the cash and reports the attempted theft to the local sheriff. However, the sheriff's lack of honesty soon becomes apparent; he puts Tom in a lockup and sets out to take the money for himself. As the flood waters rise, Tom has to escape from jail if he is to save both the townspeople's savings and his own life. Meanwhile, Jim and the sheriff are locked in a race to see who can find the $3 million first.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, Edward Asner, Betty White
Director: Mikael Salomon
Audrey (2014)
Comedy
"Audrey" is a hopeful, yet terribly insecure 29-year-old who's about to have the all-important third date with the man who may, hopefully, prove to be the love of her life. As the minutes tick by with no sign of her date, Audrey's inner demons – stemming from society's universal perception of beauty – surface, and ultimately force her to find the strength and courage she never imagined she had.
Starring: Sybil Darrow, Edward Asner, Ed Quinn, Helena Mattsson, Charles Shaughnessy, Ethan Phillips, Jonathan Chase, Robert Curtis Brown
Director: Dean Pollack
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Liberator (2012)
Action | Short
Lou Ferrigno ("The Incredible Hulk") is back in action as a washed-up superhero trying to get his life back on the rails in this gritty short film.
Starring: Lou Ferrigno, Peta Wilson, Jessica Andres, Darwin Harris, Don Wilson, Tara Cardinal, Edward Asner, Michael Dorn
Director: Aaron Pope
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The Animal (2001)
Comedy
From the producers of the comedy smash Deuce Bigalow comes The Animal, about a small, wimpy Marvin, who doesn't have what it takes to fulfill his lifelong dream to be a cop. But his luck changes when he's critically injured in a car accident and a deranged scientist secretly uses animal organs to rebuild him. Energized by his new parts, Marvin leaves his weakness behind and achieves instant fame as a supercop. Now a hero, life is going great for Marvin until his animal instincts start taking over his body at all the wrong times. Marvin struggles to remain civilized and be a perfect gentleman with his new love, Rianna in a series of hilarious situations that would drive any animal crazy.
Starring: Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley, Edward Asner, Michael Caton
Director: Luke Greenfield
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist / Home Alone 5 (2012)
Comedy | Crime | Family
Finn Baxter and his family move from California to Maine to their new house. Finn is terrified and believes the house is haunted. While he sets up traps to catch the "ghost", his parents get stranded across town and Finn is home alone with his sister. Their house is targeted by 3 thieves.
Starring: Edward Asner, Peter DaCunha, Jodelle Ferland, Ellie Harvie, Christian Martyn, Doug Murray, Debi Mazar, Malcolm McDowell, Chris Sigurdson, Eddie Steeples
Director: Peter Hewitt
Too Big to Fail (2011)
Drama
A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend.
Starring: James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt, Edward Asner, Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, Topher Grace, Cynthia Nixon, Bill Pullman, Tony Shalhoub
Director: Curtis Hanson
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