Movies starring Peter Gallagher

I'll Be Home for Christmas (1988)

96 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Does a movie need to have a purpose or can it survive just as a vision of a slice of life? I am not sure whether a movie can survive just being a slice of life without a story to drive it and it is what is causing me issues ...

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988)

100 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

I will stop there because I am sure there will be some who watch "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" having never watched "The Caine Mutiny" and to say what happens would spoil this movie. And as such I should say for those who ...

High Spirits (1988)

99 mins     Comedy, Fantasy, Horror      

High Spirits (1988) attempts to make a castle a ghostly tourist attraction cause chaos for its owner and guests...

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

100 mins     Drama      

There are a lot of people who tend to only enjoy one sort of movie, what I really mean is that there are those who dig easy to watch commercial cinema and those who enjoy the thought provoking style of independent cinema. For...

An Inconvenient Woman (1991)

182 mins     Drama, Mystery, Thriller      

"An Inconvenient Woman" TV mini-series/ TV movie is the sort of production you will either love or hate with it clearly being heavily influenced in style by the soaps of the late 80s and early 90s. Now I grew up on the likes ...

The Player (1992)

124 mins     Comedy, Crime, Drama      

The Player: Robert Altman's inside look at the shallow world of Hollywood starring Tim Robbins as a producer who becomes increasingly paranoid...

Malice (1993)

107 mins     Crime, Mystery, Thriller      

The strength of "Malice" is that it starts of as one thing, a thriller surrounding a serial killer doing the rounds on a college campus and then turns into something completely different. But it's clever in doing so as it suc...

Mother's Boys (1994)

96 mins     Drama, Thriller      

Whilst her mother fell foul to a psycho with a knife in a shower, Jamie Lee Curtis gets to play the psycho in "Mother's Boys" a 90s thriller about an estranged mother hell bent on not just getting her son's back but also her ...

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

103 mins     Comedy, Romance      

For the most "While You Were Sleeping" is your stereotypical date movie, it can be boxed with the likes of "Sleepless in Seattle" as it is that sort of 90s romantic fun. But then director Jon Turteltaub adds something extra t...

The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

94 mins     Action , Comedy, Crime      

I could tell you that "The Man Who Knew Too Little" is a pastiche on Hitchcock as the title certainly points you in that direction. I could also tell you it is a "James Bond" spoof with Wallace ending up in the world of agent...

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

93 mins     Horror      

"House on Haunted Hill" is a remake of the 1958 movie and although I am not usually a fan of remakes I did enjoy this one purely because it took a good storyline and made it current. Some may say that for horror this newer ve...

American Beauty (1999)

122 mins     Drama      

Sam Mendes is not the first director to take us behind the seemingly American ideal of white picket fences and happy marriage to show the dysfuncionality of family life behind the facade and I am sure he won't be the last. Bu...

Cupid & Cate (2000)

100 mins     Drama, Romance, TV Movie      

"Cupid & Cate" is one of those Hallmark movies which starts off in a pretty typical manner as we meet the individualistic Cate with her vintage boutique, her own vintage dress sense and her love of daytime soaps which she kno...

Mr. Deeds (2002)

96 mins     Comedy, Romance      

It seems so wrong to say that Adam Sandler's "Mr. Deeds" is a remake of "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" because they are very different movies despite using the same basic storyline and both being comedies. Frank Capra's "Mr. Deeds ...

Center Stage: Turn It Up (2008)

95 mins     Drama, Musical      

I haven't watched "Center Stage" yet but you don't need to if you want to watch "Center Stage: Turn It Up" because it is a stand alone story, a stand alone cliche story at that. You see "Center Stage: Turn It Up" is really ju...

Adam (2009)

99 mins     Drama, Romance      

There are three things going on in "Adam" and they start with the beautiful, the relationship which forms between Adam and Beth. Watching the self centred Beth become aware that there is someone else in her universe and she f...

Burlesque (2010)

119 mins     Drama, Musical, Romance      

Burlesque: Christina Aguilera is the small town girl who heads to the city and becomes a sensation at a Burlesque club run by Tess (Cher)...

Step Up 4 Miami Heat (2012)

99 mins     Drama, Musical, Romance      

Why do I have a feeling that writing a review of "Step Up 4 Miami Heat" is pretty redundant as those who might watch it probably won't care for checking out reviews and they might even think it is great cinema without looking...