Raymond O'Connor

Drowning Mona -- When the most-hated woman (Bette Midler) in Verplanck, New York is murdered, Sheriff Danny DeVito attempts to solve the crime by narrowing down the suspects virtually the entire township! Co-starringJamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell.

Life Stinks -- Mel Brooks directs this film about a ruthless billionaire, Goddard Bolt (Brooks), who wants to obliterate a poor section of Los Angeles and build a high-tech commercial center in its place. His only problem is that he owns only half the land needed for the construction, the other half belonging to equally ruthless billionaire Vance Craswell (Jeffrey Tambor), who has his own ideas for the land. The two try to buy each other out until, finally, a deal is struck: Craswell bets that Bolt cannot survive a month on the streets as a homeless man. If Bolt makes it, he gets the property. If he doesn't, Craswell gets it. Bolt agrees and, as a poor man, he begins to feel the pain of being uprooted and alone, even meeting a friendly homeless woman, Molly (Lesley Ann Warren) with whom he forms an attachment.

Mel Brooks directs this film about a ruthless billionaire, Goddard Bolt (Brooks), who wants to obliterate a poor section of Los Angeles and build a high-tech commercial center in its place. His only problem is that he owns only half the land needed for the construction, the other half belonging to equally ruthless billionaire Vance Craswell (Jeffrey Tambor), who has his own ideas for the land. The two try to buy each other out until, finally, a deal is struck: Craswell bets that Bolt cannot survive a month on the streets as a homeless man. If Bolt makes it, he gets the property. If he doesn't, Craswell gets it. Bolt agrees and, as a poor man, he begins to feel the pain of being uprooted and alone, even meeting a friendly homeless woman, Molly (Lesley Ann Warren) with whom he forms an attachment.

He's Big, He's Bad, He's Baby-sitting, and He's In Trouble. Hulk Hogan ("Rocky III," TV's "Wrestlemania") stars as a former pro-wrestler who takes a job as a nanny for a brilliant professor's children -- who favorite game is finding ways to force their nanny to quit -- and must survive a possibly impossible job while saving the earth from an evil plot to steal one of the professor's inventions. Also starring Golden Globe-nominee Sherman Hemsley (TV's "The Jeffersons," TV's "The Hughleys").

No one in the quiet little town of Verplanck, New York seems to blink when one of its best-known and least-liked residents, Mona Dearly (Bette Midler), drives her Yugo into the Hudson to her death. Bound by duty to investigate, Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) soon discovers it wasn't an accident. But the chief gets precious little help from the citizenry, as Mona was not one of Verplanck's favorite citizens. Career waitress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis) didn't have a problem seducing both Mona's husband Phil (William Fichtner) and son Jeff (Marcus Thomas), and Mona made life miserable for Jeff's business partner Bobby (Casey Affleck) and his fiancée (Neve Campbell). When Chief Rash asks "Who would like to see Mona Dearly dead?" the same answer keeps coming back, who wouldn't?

Bette Midler stars as malicious Mona Dearly, who's the most despised woman in Verplanck, N.Y.: Her husband hates her, her children hate her, and her neighbors hate her. So, when Mona ends up drowned in the river, it's no accident.

When the most-hated woman (Bette Midler) in Verplanck, New York is murdered, Sheriff Danny DeVito attempts to solve the crime by narrowing down the suspects virtually the entire township! Co-starringJamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell.

After years of driving the town crazy, Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) drove herself into a river. But when this twist of fate turns out to be an act of murder, Chief of Police Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) has his work cut out for him. The obnoxious Mona is survived by a town full of enemies, aka prime suspects, including her cheating husband (William Fichtner), his mistress (Jamie Lee Curtis), a heartless son (Marcus Thomas), the police chief's daughter (Neve Campbell) and her fiance (Casey Affleck). To know Mona Dearly was to hate her, and the big mystery isn't who would want to see her dead...but who wouldn't. Now, Chief Rash tries to figure out who to blame but the town just wants to know who to thank.

Billy Crystal ("Monsters, Inc.," "Analyze This") stars in this comedy of incredible proportions about a sleazy talent agent who discovers that love and friendship are more important than ambition and wealth. After crashing his car in the Romanian countryside, the agent is rescued by his dream-come-true: a 7-1/2 foot tall "giant" (NBA basketball star Gheorghe Muresan) who lives a cloistered existence in a Romanian monastery. Disregarding the giant's gentle nature and vulnerability, the agent proceeds to orchestrate the giant's show business career as they travel to New York City and Las Vegas. Cameos by Steven Seagal ("Under Siege") and Vern Troyer ("Austin Powers" films) as a wrestler.

Billy Crystal stars in this comedy of incredible proportions about a sleazy talent agent who discovers that love and friendship are more important than ambition and wealth. After crashing his car in the Romanian countryside, the agent is rescued by his dream-come-true: a 7-1/2 foot tall "giant" (NBA basketball star Gheorghe Muresan) who lives a cloistered existence in a Romanian monastery. Disregarding the giant's gentle nature and vulnerability, the agent proceeds to orchestrate the giant's show business career as they travel to New York City and Las Vegas. Cameos by Steven Seagal and Vern Troyer as a wrestler.

For years Brigadier General Francis Xavier Hummel, a decorated military hero, has petitioned the United States Government to honor his men who have lost their lives in service to their country during highly covert military operations by providing their families the same benefits and tributes due other war veterans. For years his efforts have been scorned. Now, angry and determined to seek justice, Hummel and a crack team of commandos seize control of Alcatraz Island, taking hostage a group of tourists. If reparations are not immediately forthcoming, Hummel plans to launch a battery of rockets charged with lethal V.X. poison gas on the San Francisco Bay Area. The city's only hope for survival is FBI chemical/biological weapons expert, Stanley Goodspeed, and a top-secret federal prisoner, John Patrick Mason, who also happens to be the only known convict to have escaped the island fortress. With the clock ticking, this unlikely and reluctant duo, escorted by a U.S. Navy Seal team, embark on a desperate bid to infiltrate the island and detoxify the weapons before disaster strikes.

A nervous FBI chemist and a hardened, resourceful British convict team up to take on a rogue general and his soldiers who set up deadly bio-weapons on the island of Alcatraz. A smashing action hit, with Ed Harris.