Operation Dumbo Drop (1995)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | War
To keep the loyalty of a village during the Vietnam war, a U.S. Army officer and his unit struggle to deliver it a live elephant.
Starring: Danny Glover, Ray Liotta, Denis Leary, Doug E. Doug, Corin Nemec, Tchéky Karyo
Director: Simon Wincer
Monte Walsh (2003)
Romance | Western
Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, but "nothing they can't do from a horse." Their lives are divided between months on the range and the occasional trip into town. Monte has a long-term relationship with prostitute Martine Bernard, while Chet has fallen under the spell of the widow who owns the hardware store. Camaraderie and competition with the other cowboys fill their days, until one of the hands, Shorty Austin, loses his job and gets involved in rustling and killing. Then Monte and Chet find that their lives on the range are inexorably redirected.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Isabella Rossellini, Keith Carradine, George Eads, Barry Corbin, James Gammon
Director: Simon Wincer
The Young Black Stallion (2003)
Adventure | Drama | Family
A prequel to the 1979 classic The Black Stallion–a family drama that presents the horse's adventures with a young girl named Neera, who has been separated from her father in Arabia by WWII. Left alone in the desert, she befriends the wild colt whom she names Shetan. Once reunited with her father, however, Neera remains haunted by the images of the lost horse in the desert–one of a few stallions of legend, rumored to be born of the sands, sired by the night sky, drinkers of the wind.
Starring: Biana Tamimi, Richard Romanus, Patrick Elyas, Gérard Rudolf, Ali Al Ameri, Andries Rossouw
Director: Simon Wincer
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
Family | Sci-Fi
After escaping from a maximum-security research facility, D.A.R.Y.L. — Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform — is rescued and adopted by the Richardson family. Domestic bliss ensues until D.A.R.Y.L.'s actual "parents," two scientists, come to claim him. The Richardsons are shocked to realize that their adopted son isn't just flesh and blood, but wires and microchips as well.
Starring: Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, Colleen Camp, Josef Sommer, Barret Oliver, Ed Grady
Director: Simon Wincer
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Western
The tuff biker Harley and his no less tuff Cowboy friend Marlboro learn that an old friend of them will lose his bar, because a bank wants to build a new complex there and demands 2.5 million dollars for a new contract in advance. Harley and Marlboro decide to help him by robbing the corrupt bank. Unfortunately they target the wrong safety transport and get hold of an amount of a new synthetic drug. Now they are targeted both by criminal bankers and killers of the drug mob.
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field, Daniel Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito, Vanessa Williams
Director: Simon Wincer
Free Willy (1993)
Adventure | Drama | Family
When a boy learns that a beloved killer whale is to be killed by the aquarium owners, the boy risks everything to free the whale.
Starring: Jason James Richter, Lori Petty, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen, Michael Ironside, Danielle Harris
Director: Simon Wincer
Quigley Down Under (1990)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western
Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes,instead, that his mission is murder – to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land – Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a savage war against his former employer, Quigley proves that no one gets the best of a steely-eyed gunfighter – no one, that is, except the mysterious beauty who rides by his side.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick, Tony Bonner
Director: Simon Wincer
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles / Crocodile Dundee III (2001)
Adventure | Comedy
From the opening shot of a Jurassic Park-esque reptilian eye, you know you're in for a wild ride. As Mick "Crocodile" Dundee sits in a canoe sharpening his famous knife, a monstrous croc hides somewhere in the deep. Suddenly, it attacks, tearing Mick's boat to pieces and leaving him and mate Jacko up a tree. Life for Mick can only get easier, right? When Mick arrives at home, he discovers longtime companion Sue's newspaper-mogul father has called, and needs her help on an article at the paper's Los Angeles branch. Mick, who recognizes his importance in the modernizing bush is now no more than as a tourist attraction, agrees to join her, and together Mick, Sue, and son Mikey head for the wild country of L.A. Here the adventure truly begins, as Mick and Jacko brave a cowboy bar where the horsemen are of a different color, and a Hollywood film party where everyone seems interested in Mick's mate Malcolm "Mal" Gibson's colorful exploits…
Starring: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, Jonathan Banks, Jere Burns
Director: Simon Wincer
