When high school football player Cam Stiles loses his best friend, he decides to drop football and focus on attaining his friend's goal of running a mile in under four minutes. Cam's decision tears apart his relationship with former teammates and his father—who happens to be his demanding football coach.

McBride: It's Murder, Madam

2005

English

6.7

♡ 3

Mystery

Kevin Connor Director

Lindsay Hollister as Becky Sullivan

Joel Polis as Harold Paxton

Sarah Buxton as Heather Bronson

Monnae Michaell as Judge Daly

Mystery drama starring John Larroquette and Marta Dubois. A cop-turned-lawyer helps an aspiring actress accused of killing a woman running a dating service.

Prison of Secrets

1997

English

6.0

♡ 2

62%

Crime

Drama

women's prison

Fred Gerber Director

Joel Polis as Brad

Tasia Valenza as Maria

Stephanie Nash as Mother #1

Dan Lauria as Sergeant Ed Crang

Lynn Schaffer is willfully irresponsible once too often, gets fired and refuses a plea-bargain with her employer. She's now convicted and because of this uncooperative attitude gets the maximum sentence, 10 years in a women's jail wing. Model husband Larry, who wasn't informed of her dumb schemes is left running her appeal, the household and spoiled daughter who now feels abandoned. Since most inmates are junkies or prostitutes, sergeant Ed Crang and fellow corrupt jailers can run a 'favors in kind exchange'. For rebels, it gets worse. Larry however has his own radio show, so it all hangs on gathering proof.

My Blue Heaven

1990

English

6.3

♡ 22

71%

Herbert Ross Director

Melanie Mayron as Crystal Rybak

Joan Cusack as Hannah Stubbs

Joel Polis as U.S. Attorney

Daniel Stern as Will Stubbs

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...

Tumbleweeds

1999

English

6.7

♡ 6

82%

65%

Comedy

Drama

mother daughter relationship

san diego, california

single mother

Gavin O'Connor Director

Jay O. Sanders as Dan Miller

Lisa Jane Persky as Diner Waitress

Janet McTeer as Mary Jo Walker

Joel Polis as Vice Principal

Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine Ava is tiring of. This time, they are helped on their move to San Diego by trucker Jack Ranson. While Ava settles in, getting a leading part in the school play, Jack starts dating Mary Jo but soon reveals himself to be controlling and aggressive. Mary Jo prepares to flee again, angering Ava.

Alien Hunter

2003

English

5.2

♡ 20

17%

Ron Krauss Director

Joel Polis as Copeland

John Lynch as Dr. Michael Straub

Ross W. Clarkson as Falkland Man #1

James Spader as Julian Rome

Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.

It's My Party

1996

English

7.1

♡ 10

53%

Randal Kleiser Director

Lee Grant as Amalia Stark

Margaret Cho as Charlene Lee

Sally Kellerman as Sara Hart

Joel Polis as Tim Bergen

Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function normally. He arranges a party to reconnect and say goodbye to his closest friends and his confused parents. But when his ex-partner, Brandon, a television director who left Nick when he was diagnosed with HIV, shows up, what was supposed to be a celebratory event becomes much more difficult for everyone.

True Believer

1989

English

6.7

♡ 16

96%

Joseph Ruben Director

Joel Polis as Dean Rabin

James Woods as Eddie Dodd

Luis Guzmán as Ortega

Robert Downey Jr. as Roger Baron

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.

The Rookie

1990

English

5.9

♡ 39

31%

Clint Eastwood Director

Tom Skerritt as Eugene Ackerman

Joel Polis as Lance

Clint Eastwood as Nick Pulovski

Raul Julia as Strom

Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.

The Thing

1982

English

8.2

♡ 346

85%

92%

Action

based on novel or book

John Carpenter Director

Keith David as Childs

Joel Polis as Fuchs

Peter Maloney as George Bennings

Kurt Russell as R.J. MacReady

A twelve-man team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror...And becomes one of them.