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Duets
Duets is about karaoke hustlers who compete for prizes. Of course, Huey plays a karaoke master who is the father of Gwyneth Paltrow. The movie is all a "Buzz buzz buzz" because of Paltrow's recent Oscar award. The movie's highpoint: Huey and Gwyneth team up on Smokey Robinson's "Cruisin'."
.Com For Murder
This is a 2000 film. This high-tech, psychological thriller is set in the shadowy world of the Internet. Sondra Brummel is recovering from a skiing accident in her boyfriend's mansion, and accidently contacts a possible killer in an Internet chatroom. She and her friend Misty enter a virtual game that that becomes all too real.
In this movie Huey plays Detective Matheson.
Dead Husbands
This is a 1998 film. John Ritter stars as Dr. Carter Elson, who finds a list of men's names among his wife Alex's (Nicollette Sheridan) possessions. When Carter discovers his own name at the bottom of the list, and that some of the other names are those of dead men, he confides in his friend/agent Betty (Amy Yasbeck). Time is ticking as they try and figure out what the list means before his name reaches the top. Alex, a small town girl who marries the up-and-coming doctor as an entry to the social-climbing world she always coveted, is frustrated when obstacles are placed in her path. She meets two other "unhappy wives," played by Sonja Smits and Donna Pescow, and discovers a way out that may be the answer to all of her prayers. The women conspire to 'shorten the list!'
Huey plays 'Dalton Phillips' but is uncredited in this movie.
Shadow of Doubt
This mystery with conspiracy theory overtones starring Melanie Griffith and Tom Berenger is well constructed. The clues to the killer could have been a touch stronger but it's basically a "play fair" mystery with lots of red herrings to keep you guessing. Berenger, as usual, is very good as the DA opposing defense attorney Griffith, whom he used to date. Griffith is very believable as the sharp attorney often underestimated due to her looks and little girl voice. Singer Huey Lewis is a very pleasant surprise as Griffith's investigator and tech expert.
Featuring: Kimberley Kates, Huey Lewis, James Morrison (II), Lisa Pelikan, John Ritter, Craig Sheffer, Danielle Nicolet, Tom Berenger, Wade Dominguez, Nina Foch, Melanie Griffith, D. Elliot Woods
Also Known As: Reasonable Doubt (1998) MPAA: Rated R for strong violence, sexuality and language. Country: USA Language:
English
Wag the Dog
After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisors (DeNiro) contacts a top Hollywood producer (Hoffman) in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media.
Awards
- Academy Award nomination - Best Actor - Dustin Hoffman
- Academy Award nomination - Best Adapted Screenplay
- Golden Globe nomination - Best Picture
- Golden Globe nomination - Best Actor - Dustin Hoffman
- Golden Globe nomination - Best Screenplay
Featuring: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin, Kirsten Dunst, William H. Macy, Craig T. Nelson, Suzie Plakson, Michael Higgins, Woody Harrelson, Michael Belson, Suzanne Cryer, Jason Cottle.
MPAA: Rated R for language. Runtime: USA:96 Country: USA
Sphere
When a spaceship is found 1000 feet below the Pacific Ocean it is carbon dated to be over 400 years old. The American army believe it to be a UFO. As a result a team of scientific experts are rushed to the scene. A team that was formed ten years before, only to humor the American government. The team is taken down to search the space craft and when doing so they come across a giant metallic sphere. They figure that the space craft has time travelled as they find a computer keyboard which says, "Made in USA, 2048" Also they discover that the spaceship travelled through a black hole. When they discover how to enter the sphere they do so and once they come out they hold strange powers of manifestation.
Featuring: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah, Marga Gómez, Huey Lewis, Bernard Hocke, James Pickens Jr., Michael Keys Hall, Ralph Tabakin
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action including some startling images. Runtime: USA:142 / Australia:130 / Sweden:135 / Switzerland:132
Short Cuts
'Short Cuts', the wonderfully funny and highly praised box office hit from the director of 'The Player', was named by virtually every film critic as one of the best films of the year. Altman skilfully interweaves the humorous, sexy, romantic and sometimes tragic stories of twenty two unforgettable characters, all inhabitants of the sprawling suburbs of Los Angeles. An assortment of phone-sex operators, unfaithful husbands, windictive wives, cops, bakers, pool cleaners, make-up artists, jazz singer, fishermen and incontinent dogs cross each others paths, laugh, cry and fight in this amazingly gripping slice of modern American life. Huey has a fairly sizeable role as one of the fishermen.
Awards
- The Guardian Critics' Choice,
- Best Film, Venice Film Festival,
- Golden Globe Special Achievement Award, The Entire Cast
Featuring: Andie McDowell, Bruce Davison, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Chris Penn, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Tim Robbins, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Jack Lemmon, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry and Huey Lewis.
Short Cuts - a Robert Altman film - based on the writings of Raymond Carver - USA 1993 - distributed by Fox Video - Artificial Eye ART 104 - 180 minutes
Back to the Future
Marty McFly is your average, slacker teenager, who works for a crazed inventor named Doc Brown. When Doc creates a time machine out of a DeLorean, Marty is accidentally transported into the year 1955. There, he stumbles upon a younger version of his parents, disrupts the meeting, and must get the two together so that they would get married and have him!
"Power of Love" and "Back in Time" were written by the band and contributed to this movie.
Huey makes an uncredited appearance as the band judge who says, "I'm sorry, you're just too loud."
Awards
- Academy Award - Sound Effects Editing
- Academy Award nomination - Best Music, Song - "The Power of Love"
- Academy Award nomination - Best Sound
- Academy Award nomination - Best Screenplay
- Golden Globe nomination - Best Motion Picture
- Golden Globe nomination - Best Actor - Michael J. Fox
- Golden Globe nomination - Best Song - "The Power of Love"
- Golden Globe nomination - Best Screenplay
Featuring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, Lee McCain, James Tolkan, J.J. Cohen, Casey Siemaszko, Billy Zane, Harry Waters Jr.
Runtime: USA:111 / UK:112 / Sweden:117 Country: USA Language: English Color: Color (Technicolor) Sound Mix: 70mm 6-Track / Dolby
Heaven's Gate
Michael Cimino's bleak anti-western based on events in Montana late last century. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan Champion, over the woman they both love, Ella Watson. Both men find themselves questioning their roles in the furious conflict between wealthy landowners and European immigrants attempting to build new lives on the American frontier, which culminates in a brutal pitched battle.
Sean Hopper is part of the "Heaven's Gate Band".
Featuring: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Joseph Cotten, Jeff Bridges, Ronnie Hawkins, Paul Koslo, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Masur, Robin Bartlett, Margaret Benczak, Jack Blessing, Stephen Bruton, Norton Buffalo, T-Bone Burnett, David Cass Jr., Loyd Catlett, Michael Christensen, John Conley, Jarlath Conroy, Paul D'Amato, Anatoli Davydov, Cleve Dupin, H.P. Eveetts, Bobby Faber, Nina Gaidarova, Pat Hodges, Sean Hopper.
Also Known As: Johnson County Wars (1980) Runtime: USA:219 / Germany:174 / Sweden:149 Country: USA Language: English Color: Color Sound Mix: Dolby
