Christopher Penn
1) Footloose
Description
Ren MacCormack moves from Boston to the small town of Bomont, where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out. Bomont's councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by invoking ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizes the town, and falls in love with...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Set in the 1970s Bay City, two undercover police detective, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and Dave Starsky, always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey. They rely on their street informer Huggy Bear and race to the scene of the crimes in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod. The two are on their first big case which involves a former college campus drug dealer who has gone on to become a white collar criminal dealing in a new...
4) Corky Romano
Pub. Date
2002
Description
The outcast son of a Mafia boss is recruited by his family to infiltrate the FBI and steal any evidence that will put his father in jail.
6) Pale Rider
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
An unknown stranger rides into a California Gold Rush town and gets caught in the middle of a feud between the mining syndicate and independent miners.
Description
"Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen form a love triangle with murder at its heart in A Perfect Murder, the sleek, keep-you-guessing sizzler inspired by the play Dial M for Murder. A luckless prisoner (Kevin Bacon) and an idealistic rookie attorney (Christian Slater) take on the dehumanizing treatment of inmates in Murder in the First, the powerhouse true tale of the trial that brought down Alcatraz. And unconventional detective Sandra...
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Beethoven: With nefarious dognappers hot on his heels, an adorable St. Bernard puppy adopts George Newton (Charles Grodin) and his family but soon wreaks havoc in their lives when he grows into 185 pounds of trouble! Beethoven's 2nd: Charles Grodin stars in this hilarious comedy about the further adventures of the Newton family and their lovable, lumbering pal, Beethoven. In this second 'symphony' Beethoven has been separated from Missy, the lady...
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, 136 min.): After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is on the lam, pursued by killers but bound to a ragtag group of outcasts.
Pale rider (1985, 116 min.): A stranger named Preacher defends the underdogs when a corporate mining boss attempts to drive independent miners away.
15) Stealing Harvard
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
John leads a simple and happy life. He has a beautiful fiancée and has a job in his future father-in-law's company. Everything is great until his favorite neice surprises him with her acceptance to Harvard University and he is reminded of a long forgotten oath he made to foot the bill. Desperate, John turns to his best friend for help. It is decided that they must turn to a temporary life of crime to raise the cash needed.
16) Stealing Harvard
Pub. Date
[2003], ©2002
Description
John leads a simple and happy life. He has a beautiful fiancée and has a job in his future father-in-law's company. Everything is great until his favorite niece surprises him with her acceptance to Harvard University and he is reminded of a long forgotten oath he made to foot the bill. Desperate, John turns to his best friend for help. It is decided that they must turn to a temporary life of crime to raise the cash needed.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Based on four best-selling non-fiction books of over 700 Darwin Award cases, an insurance claims investigator teams up with a forensic detective, to team up to investigate potential Darwin Award cases. Winners are saluted for the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.
18) Rumble fish
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Rusty James is a troubled teen who lives in the shadow of his older brother, "the Motorcycle Boy." He wants to be smart, tough, and cool like his sibling. Trouble is, he seems to only have the tough part down. Rusty isn't a leader like his brother, he's only good at getting people into trouble and trying to kick and punch his way out of it. Everyone around him has given up on Rusty James, and he's going to destroy anybody around him, including himself....
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Reservoir dogs: After a botched bank robbery, the gang meets up in a warehouse where the group suspects that one of them is really a cop.
Bad lieutenant: He's a gambler ... a thief ... a junkie ... a killer and a cop. Now he's investigating the most shocking case of his life, and as he moves closer to the truth, his self-destructive past is closing in.