Richard Young

It's 2001 before Twitter, before the flash mob and before Obama. A political unknown named Grant Cogswell (Joel David Moore) decides he must take down Seattle City Councilman Richard McIver (Cedric the Entertainer). Grant has only one dream, but it's a big one: an elegant monorail gliding silently above the city's wet streets, with only a tiny footprint - 'like a kids' lemonade stand!' - on the ground. He is apoplectic with rage over McIver's mass transit proposal: a ground rail train he thinks will destroy lower class neighborhoods, wreak environmental harm on the local salmon population, and destroy the city. Grant has no campaign contributors, a tendency toward outbursts of profanity, and a snowball's chance in hell - until he lures recently fired alternative-weekly reporter Phil Campbell (Jason Biggs) to run his campaign. Phil may be a political neophyte, but he has the tact that Grant lacks and a 'what- the-hell-I-haven't-got-anything-better-to-do' attitude until he recruits an army of wild-eyed young volunteers to back their unlikely crusade, and the impossible begins to happen.

Trailer for Grassroots. It s 2001 before Twitter, before the flash mob and before Obama. A political unknown named Grant Cogswell (Joel David Moore) decides he must take down Seattle City Councilman Richard McIver (Cedric the Entertainer). Grant has only one dream, but it s a big one: an elegant monorail gliding silently above the city s wet streets, with only a tiny footprint like a kids lemonade stand! on the ground. He is apoplectic with rage over McIver s mass transit proposal: a ground rail train he thinks will destroy lower class neighborhoods, wreak environmental harm on the local salmon population, and destroy the city. Grant has no campaign contributors, a tendency toward outbursts of profanity, and a snowball s chance in hell until he lures recently fired alternative-weekly reporter Phil Campbell (Jason Biggs) to run his campaign. Phil may be a political neophyte, but he has the tact that Grant lacks and a what- the-hell-I-haven t-got-anything-better-to-do attitude…until he recruits an army of wild-eyed young volunteers to back their unlikely crusade, and the impossible begins to happen.

Ally (Emmanuelle Vaugier of TV's TWO AND A HALF MEN, TV's CSI: NY) is a smart young career woman who needs a new job. Samantha (Cynthia Gibb of FAME, GYPSY) is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom whose too-well-mannered kids need some fun in their lives. And Danny Donner (Dean Cain of TV's LOIS & CLARK) is the tough-guy owner of a chocolate company who wants a major ad campaign immediately. Could these three lives intertwining lead to the Christmas that changes everyone's worlds forever? Richard Ruccolo (TV's RITA ROCKS), Sierra McCormick (RAMONA AND BEEZUS), Jared Gilmore (TV's MAD MEN), and Sarah Thompson (TV's 7TH HEAVEN, TV's ANGEL) co-star in this surprising comedy about little white lies, big holiday wishes, and a woman who may just find love in the most unexpected places by becoming A Nanny For Christmas.

A high-profile slaying becomes the case of an ambitious attorney's career in this legal thriller based on the novel by William Diehl. Richard Gere stars as Martin Vail, a famed defense lawyer who volunteers his services to Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton), a Kentucky teenager charged with the murder of a Chicago archbishop. Covered with blood, Aaron was captured after a foot chase broadcast live on TV, making a gleeful Vail certain that he could raise his profile by defending the obviously guilty suspect. Assigned to prosecute is Assistant District Attorney Janet Venable (Laura Linney), who is Vail's ex-girlfriend. Vail's case becomes more complicated than he expected when a psychologist, Dr. Molly Arrington (Frances McDormand) concludes that Stampler suffers from multiple personality disorder. Vail also uncovers evidence that the archbishop was involved in a corrupt land scheme and may have molested young parishioners. Now the cynical, opportunistic attorney is faced with a daunting prospect, a client who may actually deserve his best defense. Its shocking, twist ending made Primal Fear (1996) a big box office hit and earned Norton, in his screen debut, an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

In the current recession, a punishing wave of layoffs has pushed some people right over the edge financially. For Richard and Maria Lipowski and their two young sons, it took less than a year to tumble from comfortable suburban life into a spiral of credit-card debt. (April 2, 2009)

It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness the unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery...until now. When a bank robbery goes wrong, desperate felons Julian (Brandon Johnson), Marilyn (Heather Magee), and Kurt (Richard Glover), scatter to meet up later at an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. Grabbing hostages Samantha (Samantha Dark) and her young daughter along the way, the group has no idea that the house they've chosen for their seclusion is about to become a hunting ground - with them as the prey.

Once in a great while a movie comes along that truly grips and uplifts its audiences. Such a movie is An Officer And A Gentleman, a timeless tale of romance, friendship and growth. Loner Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot and in thirteen tortuous weeks he learns the importance of discipline, love and friendship. Louis Gossett, Jr. won an Academy Award* for his brilliant portrayal of the tough drill instructor who teaches Zack that no man can make it alone. And while Gossett tries to warn the young officer about the local girls who will do anything to catch themselves pilot husbands, Zack eventually learns to love one (Debra Winger) while his fellow candidate, a memorable character portrayed by David Keith, struggles with a very different fate. An Officer And A Gentleman is a rich and satisfying story with moving performances that will stay with you long after the film has ended.

US Marine Sergeant Brandon Beckett, son of legendary Marine sniper Thomas Beckett (portrayed by Tom Berenger in Sniper 1-3), is stationed in Zimbala, Africa on a peace keeping mission working closely with the UN. German UN base commander, Hans Jaeger, sends Brandon and his squad into the neighboring war ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo to extricate the last remaining plantation owner Belgian Jean Van Brunt. On the mission, Brandon and his squad are met with fierce enemy fire from a hostile sniper who manages to kill all of them except Brandon and Van Brunt's daughter Kelli. A wounded Brandon and Kelli together make their way back to the UN base with the help of local big game hunter former mercenary and friend of Van Brunt's?Martin Chandler. While recovering back at the base, the wounded Brandon gets a surprise visit from an old friend of his father, Richard Miller, whom he hasn't seen or heard from since he was 12 years old. Miller wants to get him back home and out of trouble. But Brandon doesn't want any help. He wants to find the assailant, swears to take revenge against those who set him up. Base Commander Jaeger isn't interested in tracking down the enemy sniper. Instead he issues orders to pull all travel permits into the DRC, preparing to retreat from the area. Even attractive British Intelligence Officer Ellen Ambramowitz can't offer any help. Brandon decides he must find out on his own. Seeing his determination, Miller teaches Brandon some sniping tricks before the young sergeant secretly leaves the base. Together with Chandler, Beckett makes his way deep into rebel territory. But just when they seem to be making some head way, they're met with a big surprise...

In this high-kicking sequel to Rage And Honor, our heroes find themselves in a deadly battle for justice in an exotic and dangerous world. Australian ex-cop Preston Michaels (Richard Norton) has sought safe haven in Jakarta, Indonesia. A young American, Tommy Andrews (Patrick Muldoon), witnesses Preston's fighting skills and soon becomes his student. Undercover CIA agent Kris Fairfield (Cynthia Rothrock), assigned to investigate a money laundering operation fronted by a bank in Jakarta, arrives in the city to find her contact has been murdered. She eventually links up with Preston, who offers to help with her investigation. When Tommy's father turns out to be the banker who's laundering funds for the powerful local crime syndicate, the trio spring into action and Jakarta's bad guys will never be the same.

The lush beauty and splendor of a South Pacific paradise is vividly captured in this version of Henry DeVere Stacpoole's 1903 novel. Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard (Christopher Atkins) make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. They learn to cope withthe bewildering variety of physical changes that come with adolescence. And as they begin to mature, their childhood affections lead to a sensitive and more profound love and the birth of a child. But will they ever see civilization again?

For nearly a year, Consuelo has been obsessed with a man who visits her in her dreams, a blue prince who does not exist, according to her friends. Richard has been suffering from nightmares in which a young attractive woman seduces him and then tries to kill him. He swears he doesn't know her. Slowly the dream-like world invades reality and both end up face to face, separated only by a mirror glass in a police station: Richard identifies her as the assassin of his fianc e; she points him out as the man who raped her.

5 Days of War is an action-packed international thriller from acclaimed director Renny Harlin, that sheds light on the complicated politics and danger involved with exposing the truth during wartime. Inspired by the real events of the swift, but devastating, five-day war between Russia and the Georgian Republic in 2008, this vivid, heart-pounding film centers around a renegade American journalist (Rupert Friend of LULLABY FOR PI, THE YOUNG VICTORIA), his cameraman (Richard Coyle of PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME), and a young schoolteacher (Emmanuelle Chriqui of TV's ENTOURAGE) caught in the combat zone during the first Russian airstrikes against Georgia. As the three attempt to escape to safety, they witness the cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians. Attempting to broadcast the footage they've captured while under attack from the Russian soldiers, they are met with resistance from American and international networks who are shorthanded from covering the Bejing Olympics, or simply fatigued by war news. The trio fights to live, and to live to tell the truth.