TV Guide: Bryan Brown

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Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:50:00 -0500

Mon Dec 8 09:50 AM IFC

Video: Breaker Morant - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:25:21 -0500

Edward Woodward and Bryan Brown first came to international attention in 'Breaker' Morant (1980), a true story of the Boer War.

Video: Two Hands

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:42:18 -0500

Heath Ledger takes the lead in this clever crime drama. Jimmy, a small time criminal destined to follow in his brother?s footsteps, is recruited by the Pando (Bryan Brown), the local crime boss, to do a courier job. Jimmy?s troubles begin when he loses the $10,000 he is supposed to deliver for Pando.

Video: Last Hit, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:19:38 -0500

Bryan Brown stars as CIA hit man Michael Grant, who plans to retire after one more assignment. He buys a house in New Mexico from a widow (Brooke Adams), and they fall in love; only later does Michael realize his final target is the woman's father. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide.

Video: Tai Pan

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:43:23 -0500

Daryl Duke directed this epic adventure, based on James Clavell's best-selling novel, concerning the battle for control of the China trade in early 19th-century Hong Kong. The film takes place in 1842 on the China Coast, where the Chinese object to the British imperialist policy of buying opium from the Chinese and then selling it back to them at a higher price. As a result, British warships arrive to pound the recalcitrant Chinese into submission. The outcome of the assault is a treaty giving England the right to operate Hong Kong as a free-port. The problem is who will become the Tai-Pan, or British merchant ruler of Hong Kong? The battle lines for the position are drawn between two swashbucklers -- Dirk Struan (Bryan Brown), a skipping and jumping buccaneer, and Tyler Brock (John Stanton), a weaselly cheat. Brock makes the first move by forcing Straun into bankruptcy, but, thanks to the help of the local prostitute May-May (Joan Chen), who has a score to settle with Brock, Straun is able to raise the money

Video: Gorillas In The Mist

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:15:53 -0500

Gorillas in the Mist is based on the autobiographical 1983 book by naturalist Dian Fossey. Before the book could be brought before the cameras, Fossey had been mysteriously killed; her death provides a logical, if somewhat ghoulish climax to the film. A Kentucky girl, Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) is inspired by famed anthropologist Louis Leakey (Ian Cuthbertson) to devote her life to the study of primates. Travelling into deepest Africa, Fossey becomes fascinated with the lives and habits of the rare mountain gorillas of the Ugandan wilderness. Studying them at close quarters, Fossey develops a means of communicating with the gorillas, and in so doing becomes obsessed with the beasts' well-being. She is so devoted to her mountain that she loses the opportunity for a romance with a National Geographic photographer (Bryan Brown). Appalled by the poaching of the gorillas for their skins, Fossey complains to the Ugandan government, which dismisses her by explaining that poaching is the only means by which some of th

Video: Town Like Alice, A

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:46:11 -0500

{-A Town Like Alice}, Nevil Shute's novel of the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II, was first filmed as a theatrical feature in 1956. The six-part British TV adaptation of 1980, first shown in the US on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre beginning October 4, 1981, is more inclusive and sweeping in its adaptation. Much of the story concentrates on the oppression exercised upon the female British citizens of Malaya by the Japanese troops, including the infamous 6-week death march through the jungles. The miniseries begins just prior to the invasion, when the British citizens find it hard to believe that they're in danger. The subsequent horrors are seen through the eyes of two POWS: A British woman (Helen Morse) and an Australian soldier (Bryan Brown). Thrust together by the war and its related deprivations, the two prisoners fall in love. But at war's end they return to their separate countries of birth, and their ardor cools. After an awkward and inconclusive reunion, the lovers ultimately renew their r

Video: Still Twisted

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:11:53 -0500

Bryan Brown stars in these four tales from his Australian television series of the unexpected, Twisted. A former dancing champion is hiding a secret from his past, a woman in a railway station has a bizarre confrontation with a counter clerk, a hitman finds a routine assignment is anything but, and a women has an abrupt run-in with destiny. Brown also served as executive producer for this series. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Fx

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:32:35 -0500

A man who simulates death for a living finds himself unwittingly tied into the real thing in this suspense drama. Special effects man Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) makes his living simulating gory mayhem and photogenic violence for movies such as I Dismember Mama. Tyler is given a chance to expand his professional horizons when he's approached by Lipton (Cliff DeYoung), who introduces himself as an FBI agent and makes an unusual proposal. Mob kingpin Nicholas DeFranco (Jerry Orbach) is willing to testify against his fellow gangsters, but the investigators are worried about his safety. Lipton wants Tyler to help him and his staff fake DeFranco's assassination; if everyone is convinced DeFranco is dead, people will be a lot less likely to look for him. Tyler grudgingly takes the assignment, and while he's able to realistically simulate DeFranco being shot in a crowded restaurant, after the gag, he discovers that he's been double crossed, and he's wanted for the murder of the man he just shot. Tyler hides out with

Video: Tracked

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:10:17 -0500

Ken Russell's Dogboys is set at a southern prison. The title of the film comes from the prisoners who are used to train the attack dogs employed to stop escapes. DA Jennifer Dern (Tia Carrere) is investigating the prison's warden (Bryan Brown). She puts one of her men inside the prison, but he ends up dead from one of the dogs. Inmate Julian Taylor (Dean Cain) finds a partial picture of a man in with the blood from the mole's death. While keeping himself free of attack and harm in the prison, Taylor and Dern team up to reveal the truth about the warden, and stop his sadistic practices. Dogboys was made-for-television. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide.

Video: Dead In The Water

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:10:00 -0500

Made for cable TV, this thriller finds a lawyer (Bryan Brown) plotting the murder of his wealthy wife so he can make off with his secretary. The wrong person ends up dead, however, and he finds himself accused of the crime. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide.

Video: Fx 2: The Deadly Art Of Illusion

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:09:12 -0500

In F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion, Bryan Brown returns as movie special effects designer Rollie Tyler. Having barely escaped with his life after being duped and exploited by the villains in the first F/X, he isn't too eager to channel his talents into police work again. He'd much rather design harmless playthings for the kiddies. Still, detective Mike Brandon (Tom Mason) manages to convince Rollie to help the cops trap a dangerous voyeur. When Brandon is killed, Rollie suspects there's more to the story than meets the eye. With the aid of his old buddy Leo McCarthy (Brian Dennehy, likewise a veteran of the first F/X), Rollie uncovers a vast conspiracy involving both the police and organized crime. Of course, this compels Rollie to come up with a series of dazzling live-action special effects to confound the bad guys. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Sweet Talker

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:21:14 -0500

In Sweet Talker, an amiable, charming ex-convict (Bryan Brown) arrives in a small Australian costal city with the intent of duping the populace into investing money in a phony excavation of a sunken ship, which is allegedly filled with gold. Unexpectedly, he falls in love with a young widow (Karen Allen) and becomes a father-figure to her young son. His new romance complicates his planned scam, and he can't decide whether to carry his plan through or stay with the woman. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide.

Video: Risk

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:12:07 -0500

Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who succumbs to temptation and veers towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of novice con man Ben (Tom Long), John hatches a scheme to substantiate false claims by taking a percentage of several questionable claims his firm has settled for a fraction of their usual worth. John and Ben are assisted in their illegal business by Louise (Claudia Karvan), a lawyer with a cocaine problem who is also John's lover. But when Louise becomes involved with Ben and demands a bigger share of the money, their already-shaky confidence game begins to collapse. Risk was adapted from the short story The Adjustor by Tracy Kidder. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Styx

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:03:12 -0500

The stars of Robocop and F/X come together for this 2001 heist thriller from director Alex Wright (The First 9 1/2 Weeks). After establishing himself as one of the world's best safecrackers, Nelson (Peter Weller) decides to retire from his life of crime and walk the straight and narrow. However, when his brother is targeted after going into debt with an organized crime ring, Nelson finds himself pulled back into the life he left behind for one last big job. Luckily, he has a little help in the form of fellow top-notch crook Art (Bryan Brown). Angus MacFadyen (Equilibrium) also stars. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide.

Video: Grizzly Falls

Video Detective — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:35:19 -0500

In this family-oriented outdoor adventure story, Bryan Brown plays Tyrone, a hunter who captures a handful of grizzly bear cubs. However, Tyrone didn't count on the tenacity of the cubs' mother, who retaliates by kidnapping Tyrone's son. When Tyrone sets out to find his son, fearing the worst, the bear proves a kind and capable companion, guiding the boy through the wilderness and showing him the ways of survival in the wild. Shot amidst the rugged surroundings of Vancouver, British Columbia, Grizzly Falls also features Richard Harris, Oliver Tobias, and Tom Jackson; co-screenwriter Stuart Margolin is better known as an actor, best remembered for his recurring role as Angel on the TV series The Rockford Files. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Kim

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:22:37 -0500

Rudyard Kipling's exciting tale of adventure and intrigue in colonial India is brilliantly brought to the screen. Peter O'Toole stars as the Lama, a Tibetan holy man who befriends the mischievous, free-spirited orphan Kim and takes him on a mystical journey. When the British Secret Service's Mahbub Ali (Bryan Brown, The Thorn Birds) recruits Kim as a spy, the boy must use all his cunning to foil a plot to overthrow the British regime. Torn between two cultures and two very different mentors, Kim embarks on the ultimate journey - to find himself.

Video: Kim

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:35:03 -0500

Photo: Bryan Brown and Sam Neill - 2002 Toronto Film Festival - "Dirty Deeds" portraits - Toronto, Ontario Sept. 11, 2002

courtesy Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com — Wed, 11 Sep 2002 00:00:00 -0500

Bryan Brown, Sam Neill