Movies directed by Richard Pearce

No Mercy (1986)

106 mins     Action , Crime, Thriller      

I never got to watch "No Mercy" back in 1986, I was still too young, but I doubt my opinion of it would be any the different if I had seen it because beneath the styling it is a predictable, formula driven thriller, a cop loo...

Leap of Faith (1992)

108 mins     Comedy, Drama      

Movie Review - Leap of Faith (1992) Steve Martin stars as Jonas Nightengale, a fake faith healer who when his travelling show ends up stuck in a small town due to a brokend down vehicle decides to set up his tents there. But ...

Witness Protection (1999)

105 mins     Crime, Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Witness Protection (1999) Tom Sizemore stars as Bobby "Bats" Batton, a mobster who, after surviving a hit, turns snitch but in doing so discovers the stress of putting himself and family through the witness pro...

Plainsong (2004)

97 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Can a 97 minute movie do justice to a story which revolves around several characters and their individual situations? On a rare occasion it can but more often than not trying to cover everything within such a confined time li...

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)

83 mins     Drama, Thriller, TV Movie      

When I discovered "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America" showing on a late night channel I thought to myself this is going to be a bad movie where someone took the fear of Bird Flu and tried to make a disaster movie out of it. ...