Steve Abrams - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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First Sunday (2008)

Little Richard (2000)

She's So Lovely (1997)

Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)

Playing God (1997)

Wag the Dog (1997)

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Lawnmower Man, The (1992) -- (Movie Clip) Virtual Space Industries

Lawnmower Man, The (1992) -- (Movie Clip) You Have The Best Games

Biography

Filmography

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

First Sunday (2008)

Little Richard (2000)

She's So Lovely (1997)

Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)

Playing God (1997)

Wag the Dog (1997)

The Trigger Effect (1996)

Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story (1996)

Lord of Illusions (1995)

Playing Dangerous (1995)

The Haunting of Sea Cliff Inn (1994)

Shelf Life (1993)

Precious Victims (1993)

Street Knight (1993)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Dinner With Friends (2001)

Coyote Ugly (2000)

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Film Production - Main (Special)

Raven Hawk (1996)

Life Events

Videos

Lawnmower Man, The (1992) -- (Movie Clip) Virtual Space Industries Opening the world wide indy hit from director Brett Leonard and producer and co-writer Gimel Everett, barely based on the Stephen King story from which the title came, Pierce Brosnan as a virtual reality scientist and Mark Bringleson his boss, and an experiment with a chimp about to go wrong, in The Lawnmower Man, 1992.

Lawnmower Man, The (1992) -- (Movie Clip) You Have The Best Games Having quit his virtual reality chimp-research job because of its military applications, frustrated Dr. Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) is inspired to recruit his dimwit yard man Jobe (Jeff Fahey), which leads to him getting hooked up on gaming gear with the neighbor kid (Austin O’Brien), in the indy hit and tech sensation The Lawnmower Man, 1992.

Lawnmower Man, The (1992) -- (Movie Clip) It Works With A Human Subject Jobe (Jeff Fahey, title character), increasingly hunky, intelligent and egotistical due to training and virtual reality experiments, stands up to his tormentor Father McKeen (Jeremy Slate), while scientist Larry Angelo (Pierce Brosnan), who’s behind his transformation, asks his former boss (Mark Bringleson) for access to better tech, in The Lawnmower Man, 1992.

Lawnmower Man, The (1992) -- (Movie Clip) Doing Penance All Night Introduction of co-star Jeff Fahey as Jobe who, we learn, is a marginally functional adult living in a maintenance shed behind a church, looked over by his older brother (Geoffrey Lewis), the character loosely derived from the Steven King story which was the basis for the title, if not the story, in the virtual-reality sci-fi thriller The Lawnmower Man, 1992.

Beyond The Poseidon Adventure (1979) -- (Movie Clip) I've Had Smoother Crossings Michael Caine and his crew (Sally Field, Karl Malden) revel in their salvage from the capsized liner when a new survivor (Slim Pickens as Tex) appears, then two more, Angela Cartwright who’s the daughter of Peter Boyle, and Mark Harmon her rescuer, Shirley Jones and Veronica Hamel also among the band, in Beyond The Poseidon Adventure, 1979.

Jaws (1975) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Catch This Bird Civic panic in "Amity" (in fact, Martha's Vineyard), as Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) chairs, Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) comments, and crusty shark-hunter Quint (Robert Shaw) takes over, in Steven Spielberg's Jaws, 1975.

Jaws (1975) -- (Movie Clip) That's Some Bad Hat Famous scene from director Steven Spielberg with advanced shooting and editing, Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) scanning the beach which the city fathers refused to close, Lorraine Gary his wife, Wally Hooper Jr. the geriatric swimmer, in Jaws, 1975.

Hot Lead And Cold Feet -- (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Them English Names Are All Greek To Me Missionary Eli Bloodshy (Jim Dale) and orphan friends (Debbie Lytton, Michael Sharrett), come west to claim his inheritance, meet schoolteacher Jenny (Karen Valentine), while Mansfield (John Williams), valet to the deceased, meets the sheriff (Don Knotts), early in Disney’s Hot Lead And Cold Feet, 1978.

Hot Lead And Cold Feet -- (1978) -- (Movie Clip) How Come There's Two Of Me? Everybody is baffled as the gunfighter brother Billy meets his previously unknown missionary brother Eli (both played by Jim Dale), the mayor (Darren McGavin) of the town owned by their deceased father looking to explain the situation, in Disney’s Hot Lead And Cold Feet, 1978.

Jaws (1975) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Swim! The opening but for a brief shark's-eye-view shot with John Williams music, as Chrissie (Susan Backlinie) lures Cassidy (Jonathan Filley) into the moonlit surf, in Steven Spielberg's Jaws, 1975.

Jaws (1975) -- (Movie Clip) The Bite Radius On This Animal Co-screenwriter Carl Gottlieb is the bossy flack as Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) greets the mayor (Murray Hamilton) with news of the captured shark, Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) casting doubt and Mrs. Kintner (Lee Fierro) wailing on the chief, in Steven Spielberg's Jaws, 1975.

Color Of Money, The (1986) -- (Movie Clip) Luck Itself Director Martin Scorsese narrates his opening, in which Paul Newman, in his Academy Award-winning performance reprising "Fast Eddie Felson," from The Hustler, 1961, is introduced, along with Helen Shaver and John Turturro, in The Color Of Money, 1986, also starring Tom Cruise.

To the Devil, a Daughter - (Original Trailer) An occult writer (Richard Widmark) fights to save a friend's daughter from Satanists in To The Devil, A Daughter (1976).

Titanic (1997) - (Original Trailer) Eleven Academy Awards went to director James Cameron's $200 million recreation of the 1912 maritime disaster Titanic (1997).

Comes A Horseman - (Original Trailer) Rival ranchers (Jason Robards, Jane Fonda) battle over oil rights in Comes A Horseman (1978).

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