Preview Theater episode #040 originally broadcast on November 13, 1994
Featured in this episode:
Title: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Plot: A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
Released on: Fri 11 Nov 1994 UTC
Genre(s): Horror, Romance
Rating: R
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Partial Cast List: Brad Pitt Louis de Pointe du Lac, Tom Cruise Lestat de Lioncourt, Antonio Banderas Armand, Kirsten Dunst Claudia
Title: Star Trek: Generations
Plot: Captain Picard, with the help of supposedly dead Captain Kirk, must stop a madman willing to murder on a planetary scale in order to enter an energy ribbon.
Released on: Fri 18 Nov 1994 UTC
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Rating: PG
Directed by: David Carson
Partial Cast List: Patrick Stewart Picard, William Shatner Kirk, Malcolm McDowell Soran, Jonathan Frakes Riker
Title: Double Dragon
Plot: Two brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader has the other half, and determines to get the brothers’ half and have a complete medallion so he can gain absolute power.
Released on: Fri 04 Nov 1994 UTC
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: James Yukich (as James Nickson)
Partial Cast List: Robert Patrick Koga Shuko, Mark Dacascos Jimmy Lee, Scott Wolf Billy Lee, Kristina Wagner (as Kristina Malandro Wagner) Linda Lash
Title: Bullets Over Broadway
Plot: In 1920s New York, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster’s talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.
Released on: Wed 18 Jan 1995 UTC
Genre(s): Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rating: R
Directed by: Woody Allen
Partial Cast List: John Cusack David Shayne, Dianne Wiest Helen Sinclair, Jennifer Tilly Olive Neal, Chazz Palminteri Cheech
Title: Love Affair
Plot: Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll…
Released on: Fri 21 Oct 1994 UTC
Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Comedy
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Glenn Gordon Caron
Partial Cast List: Warren Beatty Mike Gambril, Annette Bening Terry McKay, Katharine Hepburn Ginny, Garry Shandling Kip DeMay
Title: Léon: The Professional
Plot: Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, who is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin’s trade.
Released on: Fri 18 Nov 1994 UTC
Genre(s): Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rating: Unrated
Directed by: Luc Besson
Partial Cast List: Jean Reno Léon, Gary Oldman Stansfield, Natalie Portman Mathilda, Danny Aiello Tony
Title: Beverly Hills Cop III
Plot: Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who shot his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.
Released on: Wed 25 May 1994 UTC
Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Rating: R
Directed by: John Landis
Partial Cast List: Eddie Murphy Det. Axel Foley, Jon Tenney Levine, Joey Travolta Giolito, Eugene Collier Leppert
Title: With Honors
Plot: Convinced his thesis will have him graduate with honors from Harvard University, a stuffy student finds himself at the mercy of a homeless man’s demands when he holds the papers hostage.
Released on: Fri 29 Apr 1994 UTC
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
Rating: PG-13
Directed by: Alek Keshishian
Partial Cast List: Joe Pesci Simon Wilder, Brendan Fraser Montgomery ‘Monty’ Kessler, Moira Kelly Courtney Blumenthal, Patrick Dempsey Everett Calloway