Brian Dennehy

Love and faith are put to the ultimate test in this stirring romantic drama set against the landmark Scopes 'Monkey Trial' of 1925. Charles Anderson (Nathan West, Miracle) is a talented young reporter engaged to Rose (Ashley Johnson, The Help), who works with him at the Tennessee small town newspaper his late father founded. The 'Trial of the Century' brings brilliant adversaries William Jennings Bryan (Fred Thompson, The Genesis Code) and Clarence Darrow (Brian Dennehy, Cocoon) to Charles' hometown. But as the trial unfolds, Charles is caught up in the media circus and becomes torn between his journalistic integrity and impressing his mentor, the colorful Baltimore Sun editor H. L. Menken (Colm Meaney, Star Trek: The Next Generation), who presses him to 'make a story' instead of report one.

Nominated for two Academy Awards , Silverado stars Kevin Kline as Paden, a sweet-faced cowboy who teams up with three strangers while seeking his fortune in the American West. Loner Emmett (Scott Glenn) first saves Paden from death in the desert, then together they spring Emmett's brother Jake (Kevin Costner) from jail. Joining forces with Mal (Danny Glover), a black cowboy battling to save his family homestead, the four ride into Silverado, a little frontier town dominated by a corrupt sheriff (Brian Dennehy) with a gambling saloon run by a formidable woman named Stella (Linda Hunt). Though the new arrivals try to fit in, the powerful McKendricks clan will not rest until Emmett and his pals are dead. Confronted with injustice all around them, the four of them pull together and fight to put things right in the town of Silverado.

Robert Redford and Debra Winger star in this sophisticated comedy thriller about art fraud and murder, with Redford as a hard-nosed assistant district attorney and Winger as an imaginative defense attorney who combine their talents to defend Daryl Hannah, a spacey 'performance artist' who is accused of theft and murder. The clashing attorneys get more than they bargained for as they come in contact with New York's fascinating art world and dangerous underworld. The delightful mix of romantic comedy and madcap slapstick co-stars Terence Stamp as a corrupt gallery owner and Brian Dennehy.

James Marshall (Twin Peaks) stars as Tommy Riley, a talented young boxer from Chicago's suburbs who is forced to move with his father (John Heard) to a rough South Side neighborhood where toughs are always showing up trying to collect on his father's gambling debts. To win money to bail his dad out of jail, Tommy is convinced to compete in illegal prizefights staged by sleazy promoter Jimmy Horn (Brian Dennehy), who exploits racial tension to fan the flames of aggression in his fights. When Tommy befriends Horn's top black fighter, Lincoln (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a young husband and father who sees his fists as his ticket out of the ghetto, it's only a matter of time before the two friends are set against each other and their bond is tested in the ring.

Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy in a scene from the Eugene O Neill play, directed by Robert Falls at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.

Miles from Home -- Trailer for Miles from Home

Accompanying two priests to the East to ostensibly convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Venetian trader Marco Polo eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward a fabled heartland.

Foreign Affairs starring Eric Stoltz, Joanne Woodward, Brian Dennehy, Stephanie Beacham

DVD trailer for Alleged. Love and faith are put to the ultimate test in this stirring romantic drama set against the landmark Scopes 'Monkey Trial' of 1925. Charles Anderson (Nathan West, Miracle) is a talented young reporter engaged to Rose (Ashley Johnson), who works with him at the Tennessee small town newspaper his late father founded. The 'Trial of the Century' brings brilliant adversaries William Jennings Bryan (Fred Dalton Thompson) and Clarence Darrow (Brian Dennehy) to Charles' hometown. But as the trial unfolds, Charles is caught up in the media circus and becomes torn between his journalistic integrity and impressing his mentor, the colorful Baltimore Sun editor H. L. Mencken (Colm Meaney, Star Trek: The Next Generation), who presses him to 'make a story' instead of report one.

Trailer for Alleged. Alleged is a romantic drama based on events occurring behind the scenes and outside the courtroom of the famous Scopes 'Monkey Trial' of 1925. Charles Anderson (Nathan West), a talented young reporter, feels trapped living in a tiny town (Dayton, TN, 1925) in steep decline. Using the Monkey Trial as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break into the journalistic big leagues, Charles becomes the eager prot g of Baltimore Sun editor H.L Mencken (Colm Meany), America's most colorful and influential columnist. The trial itself lives up to its billing as the 'Trial of the Century' when the great Clarence Darrow (Brian Dennehy) defends the theory of evolution against the popular statesman and fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan (Sen. Fred Thompson) who sees the reduction of mankind to mere animal status as both inaccurate and potentially disastrous. Once in the midst of this staged event, Charles is torn between his love for the more principled Rose (Ashley Johnson), his fianc e, and the escalating moral compromises that he is asked to make by the agnostic and acerbic Mencken. When the truth is at stake, Charles discovers, some lies just have to be told.

Defense attorney Clarence Darrow (Brian Dennehy) landing punches at the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, TN (1925).

Clarence Darrow (Brian Dennehy) cross-examines William Jennings Bryan (Sen. Fred Thompson). At the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, this cross-examination made jurisprudential history.