Mason's new movie Golf in the Kingdom is scheduled to shoot in November 2007
wrapping on 1st December 2007. A release date is provisionally planned to
coincide with the 2008 US Open (June 2008) or British Open (July 2008). Golf
scenes will be shot on location at Bandon Dunes with
other scenes to be filmed in a Eugene, Ore, Studio.
The movie version of Michael Murphy's book has been tabbed with a
modest $3 million budget. Production company Golf in the Kingdom LLC
has enrolled sports marketing and management company Octagon to
enlist corporate sponsors and handle all licensing and product
placement for the film. John Ashworth is overseeing costume design,
while Industrial Light and Magic, George Lucas' special-effects firm,
has signed on as the film's visual designers.
GOLF IN THE KINGDOM is the largest selling golf novel ever written.
The film tells the story of a 21 year old American lad, Michael
Murphy. We meet him when he is on his way to India to study Eastern
Religion. He takes a detour to Burningbush, Scotland to play his last
round of golf. There he meets an eccentric golf instructor, Shivas
Irons, who for 24 hours, takes him on a transformational journey on
and off the golf course.
FILMOGRAPHY:
1. Groundhog Day (1993) – Uncredited
2. Dennis the Menace (AKA - Dennis) (1993) .... Dennis Mitchell
3. Just in Time (1996) .... Noah
4. Spy Hard (1996) .... McCluckey
5. Bad Moon (1996) .... Brett
6. Early Edition (1996) playing "Bryce Porter" in episode: "Gun"
(episode # 1.8) 11/16/1996
7. ."ER" (1994) playing "Robert Potter" in episode: "Long Way Around,
The" (episode # 3.15) 2/13/1997
8. Gattaca (1997) .... Younger Vincent
9. Rushmore (1998) .... Dirk Calloway
10. Arlington Road (1999) .... Brady Lang
11. Anya's Bell (1999) (TV) .... Scott Rhymes
12. Gentleman's Game, A (2001) .... Timmy Price
13. Rising Place, The (2001) .... Franklin Pou
14. Kate Brasher (2001) TV Series playing "Elvis Brasher" in
episodes: "Kate", "Simon", "Jeff", "Jackson", Tracy" & "Georgia"
15. Hollywood Remembers Walter Matthau (2001) (TV) .... Himself
16. Close To Home - Episode "Miranda" - CBS 11th October 2005 ....
Derrick Adler
17. The Trouble with Dee Dee (2005) .... Christopher Rutherford
18. CSI: Miami - Episode "Rio" - 18th September 2006 .... Scott Satlin
19. Golf In The Kingdom (2008) .... Michael Murphy
COMMERCIALS:
1.Home Depot
2.MTV Movie Awards: The Max Fischer Players Present "The Truman Show"
AWARDS and NOMINATIONS:
1. Young Artist Award Best Youth Actor Leading Role in a Motion
Picture Comedy (1994) - Dennis the Menace (1993) – Won.
2. Young Artist Award (1999) – Rushmore (1998) - Nominated.
3. YoungStar Award Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Comedy Film
(1999) - Rushmore (1998) – Nominated.
4. Hollywood Reporter Young Star Award (1999) – Nominated.
5. Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot -
Leading Young Actor (2000) for Anya's Bell (1999) – Nominated.
Mason Gamble is going to star in a new movie entitled "GOLF IN THE KINGDOM". He
will play Michael Murphy. The movie is now in production.
GOLF IN THE KINGDOM, long coveted in Hollywood for its cinematic
potential, has finally got the green-light thirty-one years since the
book was published. The author Michael Murphy has teamed up with
director Susan Streitfeld and producer Mindy Affrime, and though
nothing is ever quite certain in the complex world of making movies,
it appears that we will finally get to see this much-loved story on
the screen.
GOLF IN THE KINGDOM has been recognized as a classic work on the
deeper mysteries of golf - a gospel of those who suspect, or know,
that golf is more than a mere pastime. It tells the story of a young
American man, Michael Murphy (Mason Gamble) en route to India in 1956, who stops
in Scotland to play at the legendary Burningbush golf club and in a single day
and night has his life transformed. Paired with a mysterious teacher named
Shivas Irons, he is led through a round of phenomenal golf, swept into a world
where extraordinary powers are unleashed in a back swing governed by true
gravity.
A night of adventure and revelation follow, and lead to a glimpse of
Seamus MacDuff, the holy man who haunts a ravine off Burningbush's
thirteenth fairway - the one they call Lucifer's Rug.
Through mystic-philosopher Shivas Irons- wild as a banshee, filled
with whisky and the spirited humor of his homeland - you are drawn
into new worlds by the ancient and haunting game.
The movie will offer a view of golf in a more philosophical and even mystical
light.
You can buy a copy of the book "GOLF IN THE KINGDOM" at www.amazon.com.
CSI: Miami - Episode "Rio" - Orginally aired: 18th September 2006
Credits:
Written By: Sunil Nayar
Directed By: Joe Chappelle
Guest Stars:
Carter Jenkins as Raymond Caine Jr.
Alana De La Garza as Marisol Delko
Sofia Milos as Yelina
Vincent Laresca as Antonio Riaz
Christopher Stapleton as Ray Sr.
Mason Gamble as Scott Satlin
Alex Meneses as Ana
Brennan Majia as Pablo
Susie Park as Andrea Osborn
The episode picks up straight where "One of Our Own" left off.
Horatio and Delko have arrived in Rio de Janeiro to hunt down Antonio
Riaz, who ordered the hit on Marisol. The problem is that Horatio
can't stop thinking about his late wife, and Brazilian authorities
aren't being very cooperative. While there, Horatio runs into Yelina
and finds out that Raymond is missing again. Ray Jr., now fourteen,
teams up with Brazilian authorities and will stop at nothing to bring
his father home safe, until Horatio learns the terrible truth...
Raymond is already dead. Now Horatio must stop his nephew from
getting himself killed trying to chase a ghost.
Close To Home - Episode "Miranda". Originally aired: Tuesday October
11, 2005 on CBS.
Writer: Lukas Reiter
Director: Karen Gaviola
Guest Stars: Natalie Baldwin Leon (Secretary), Anna Maganini
(Reporter (Court)), Angela Martinez (Reporter (Campus)), Kevin
Dunigan (Officer #2), Carlos Del Valle (Reporter (Campus Night)),
Darren OHare (Charlie), Larry Udy (Clerk), Jos Viramontes
(Reynolds), Christopher Cousins (Robert Flynn), Cordelia Richards
(Mary Flynn), MASON GAMBLE (Derrick Adler), Erich Anderson (Det.
George Branch), Shannon Floyd (Amy Flynn), Francisco Viana (Forensic
Tech)
Annabeth must choose between making a case against a kidnapping
suspect or saving his victim's life.
Annabeth takes a huge gamble when she denies kidnapping suspect,
Derrick Adler (guest star MASON GAMBLE) his right to have a lawyer
present during his interrogation in order to force a confession with
the hope that he will lead the police to his victim's whereabouts so
that she can be brought home alive. Derrick had kidnapped college
mate Amy Flynn (guest star Shannon Floyd) after a campus party, a
person who he has been stalking for over a year. With time running
out Annabeth is put in a tough predicament.
Meanwhile, Maureen must decide whether or not to prosecute a
detective who obstructed justice in order to protect a fellow cop.
Dee Dee Rutherford (Lisa Ann Walter) has always been a slight
embarrassment to her father, William (Kurtwood Smith of That `70s
Show). A brash, irrepressible socialite, Dee Dee lives a happy-go-
lucky existence, but her way of life will soon change when her father
decides to disown her. No more credit cards, no more house and no more
living off of daddy's dime. With her son Christopher (Mason Gamble)
and assistant Yugo by her side, Dee Dee must face the world with a new
plan. Unbeknownst to her father, Dee Dee has plenty of charity work
under her belt, something that could easily benefit her new life and
possibly bring her that much closer to her father.
The Trouble With Dee Dee is an independent film and was directed by
Chicagoan, Mike Meiner. It was filmed in the Chicago area through the
month of June 2004. The movie was previously entitled Dee Dee
Rutherford.
The movie will be released in the cinema's in the USA in 2006.
A recent interview with Mason Gamble is included in the 10th
Anniversary release of "Dennis the Menace - Special Edition". It
is available on DVD.
Dennis the Menace presents the adventures of the towheaded mischief
maker Dennis (Mason Gamble) and his neighbor Mr. Wilson (Walter
Matthau). This version available in widescreen format comes complete
with behind-the-scenes recordings, a documentary entitled "A Menace
Named Dennis," DVD challenges and interviews with the stars and
writer/ producer John Hughes. The movie based on the Hank Ketcham
comic strip was released in 1993 and earned $51 million.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Snap Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Full Frame - 1.33
Additional Release Material:
Featurettes –
1. A MENACE NAMED DENNIS
2. Behind the Scenes
3. MEMORIES OF A MENACE with Mason Gamble
Interviews –
1. John Hughes - Producer/Screenwriter
2. Walter Matthau - Star
Trailers –
1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
1. Game
The Rising Place will open in theaters in the USA on 18th October
2002.
Mason Gamble was 13 when he filmed The Rising Place. While
filming "Anya's Bell" in Salt Lake City, Mason Gamble flew back and
forth to Jackson, Miss. for the small role in the feature "The
Rising Palace."
The Rising place will be release on video and DVD in 2003.
A Gentleman's Game is available on DVD and Video in the USA from the
20th August 2002. The DVD will cost $14.99 and the Video will cost
$51.99. You can pre-order your copy of the film now.
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Best Wishes,
Keith
"The Rising Place" is currently playing in select cities as part of a
test marketing campaign, and WILL OPEN WIDE IN THE US IN THE FALL.
The film is being shown in the following upcoming Film Festivals
including Atlanta and Stoney Brook.
Atlanta (JUNE 2002) – Show times: Saturday, 1st June 2002 at 6pm
and Monday, 3rd June 2002 at 4:30 pm. Ticket Purchase: Toll Free 1-
866-468-7630, 8-6pm PST Mon - Fri, 9-5 PST Sat, Sun or purchase
online at ticketweb.com 24/7. Seating is limited at all venues and
many events will sell out. Please purchase screening pass or reserve
tickets in advance to guarantee seating. Not all screenings are
suitable for all ages. All programs are subject to change.
Stoney Brook (JULY 2002) – Show times: Sunday, 21st July 2002 at
7pm. The Stony Brook Film Festival takes place at the Staller Center
For The Arts, part of Stony Brook University, which is situated on an
1,100 acre site on the north shore of Long Island in southeastern New
York. We are approximately 60 miles east of New York City.A $40 pass
entitles you to ALL FESTIVAL SCREENINGS 17th July through 27th July
2002. Call the box office at (631)632-ARTS for ticket information or
purchase a pass at:
https://www.staller.sunysb.edu/forms/summer2002.html
You may also wish to note that the film was also shown at Kanas City
Film Festival on 11th May and 12th May 2002 at the Fine Arts and at
the Rio. Admission was $6.00.
Mason does not appear to have got a part in the movie Holes as 15-
year-old actor Shia La Beouf has signed on for the lead role of
Stanley Yelnats. Shia's had guest appearances on several TV shows
(including ER), been in a few TV movies, and had his own TV show on
the Disney Channel for a while called Even Stevens.
I will continue to check if Mason auditioned for this movie but have
come up with a blank so far.
The Overseas Filmgroup (the International Sales Operation for First
Look Media Inc.) has announced that A Gentleman's Game will be
featured at Cannes 2002 in France. It is hoping to sell the movie to
a distributor. The Overseas Filmgroup describe the film:
"A Gentleman's Game penetrates the layers of Fox Chase Golf Club from
its well-heeled members to the caddies who observe the passions and
peccadillos of the club's players. Men bond and tempers boil over
perfect drives, missed puts, and sand pits that trap a shot that just
might cost the game. A captivating tale, A Gentleman's Game is
richly insightful, not only into the game of golf, but into the
foibles that cost tournament victories and wind up changing lives."
The A Gentleman's Game Movie Poster featuring Mason has been
released. I have put a copy of the Poster in the photo's folder
for the movie.
angelbby143 asked whether it was ture that Mason Gamble auditioned
for the part of Stanley in the film "Holes"?
I could not find any information on Mason Gamble auditioning for this
movie and there have been no announcements on his Official Web Site.
I have made some enquiries but have not received all the relpys back
yet.
"Holes" was due to begin production in October 2001 but was delayed
because of the 9/11 tragedies. It's now scheduled to begin production
next month. Definite cast member mentioned is Sigourney Weaver with
the rest of the cast still to be announced. The director and producer
is Andrew Davis and the screenwriter is Brent Hanley.
"Holes" is based upon the award-winning 1999 children's book of the
same title by Louis Sachar. Among its awards are the National Book
Award, the Newberry Medal, and "Best Book of the Year" awards from
Publishers Weekly, The New York Times, and School Library Journal.
The name of the lead character in "Holes", Stanley Yelnats, is a
palindrome, spelled the same backwards & forwards. If Mason
auditioned for the part of Stanley then he could well have secured
the lead part. I will check for cast announcements for "Holes" and
will monitor the situation.
The Production Companies are Phoenix Pictures (Shanghai, Apt Pupil,
Basic) and Walden Media. Filming is scheduled to start in late April
2002 and will be done primarily in northern California.
What's "Holes" all about? A young man who is sent to a youth
detention camp after being convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Once
there, he and the other youths are forced by the warden to dig holes
under the guise that it builds character. Eventually, the boy
discovers that the warden actually is seeking an outlaw's hidden
fortune.
"Holes" is expected to be a high-profile tentpole pic for Walden,
whose mandate is to take what students are learning in school and
marry it through film, television, new media and music to make the
subject matter engaging, relevant and exciting.
"Holes" is either required or recommended reading in major school
districts in San Diego and Austin, Texas, among other cities.
Additionally, the book has been honored as the American Library
Assn.'s best book for young adults and has won the National Book
Award and the Newbery Medal for best children's and young adult
fiction.
The project came to the Walden after a prep school teacher suggested
to an executive at the company that it bring the book to the big
screen. Walden sought out the rights and found that they belonged to
Phoenix, which had already adapted the book and put a director on
board.
Phoenix agreed to partner on the project, with Walden set to consult
on elements of production and formulate its educational program
for "Holes." Part of that will include a September launch of multiple
in-school programs tied to the book.
"Many states are heralding this novel as a new young-adult book that
kids should be reading," Granat said. "This has become a classic new
example of a novel teachers are trying to get kids to appreciate, and
it happens to marry the educational mission of our company while at
the same time being very entertaining."
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A Gentleman's Game. It is the summer of 1985, and Timmy Price
(Mason Gamble) is a golf caddy at his father's exclusive country
club. Timmy has quite a swing himself, his mastery of the game
inspires awe among the membership and envy among his peers, including
fellow caddy and friend Jamie Byrne. But under pressure from his well-
meaning, self-made father, as well as the privileged club members,
Timmy soon realizes that it isn't easy being both a rising star and
just another looper in the caddy hole. Under the tutelage of
enigmatic guru Foster Pearse, Timmy hopes to develop a game that will
make him the state junior Champion. But his time with Pearse, and
Jamie's mysterious disappearance, help Timmy realize that life's real
importance lies not in wealth, status symbols, or the ability to fire
low golf scores. He comes to play the game for purity, not prizes,
and in doing so discovers the integrity and humility that bespeak a
real gentleman.
A Gentleman's Game is an unforgettable story of fathers and sons,
class and the pressure to succeed, sportsmanship, friendship, and the
beguiling and bedeviling game of golf.
In an interview with The Daily Times, author Tom Coyne commented
about Mason Gamble. "To see an actor like Mason Gamble speaking my
words is the most amazing feeling in the world." Mason took two
months of intensive golf lessons to prepare for this part. "His swing
looks pretty good," Coyne said. "The key is for him not to react
negatively when he hits a shot two feet. Everything is told by the
expression in his face, not by where the ball ends up."
Filming Notes:
Production began on 16th August 2000 and was completed by late
October 2000. The various locations included – Philadelphia,
Manayunk, Media, Paoli, and Springfield.
A GENTLEMAN'S GAME was written by Tom Coyne. Tom explains to Notre
Dame Magazine how he was approached by Hollywood. Here's what Tom
said:
"On September 23, my 25th birthday, the phone rang as I was on my way
out the door to my birthday dinner. It was the agent, Dan Mandel, and
he told me that a producer in Hollywood had gotten my manuscript
through film scouts and that he couldn't stop raving about it. As my
family went off to dinner without me, I waited for the producer from
Warner Brothers to call. All I knew was that he had an interesting
name -- Mills Goodloe -- and that he had made movies like Lethal
Weapon 3 and 4, Conspiracy Theory, Maverick and Assassins. I could
not fathom what he wanted with my little book.
My conversation with Mills was brief and direct. He asked me what I
was doing tomorrow. "Nothing," I said, "Why, what are you doing?" He
told me he was flying to Philadelphia that night and that tomorrow he
was taking me out to dinner to tell me how he was going to make my
novel into a movie. Needless to say, there was a pretty cheerful
birthday party that evening.
Mills came to town and promised me a lot of things -- that he would
make the movie over the upcoming summer, that he would leave his
job at Warner Brothers to direct it, that I would write the
screenplay, that I would produce the movie along with him, that I
would be involved in every step of the process. And to his credit, he
delivered on every single promise.
In just a few months, there I was in New York and L.A. at casting
sessions, meeting some of my favorite actors, who were sitting in
front of me, reading my lines. I was a novice who had never even been
to L.A. before and I was working with Academy Award-caliber actors
like Philip Baker Hall, Dylan Baker, Mason Gamble and Gary Sinise.
The circumstances became even more surreal when we decided to shoot
the movie in Philadelphia at my golf club and in my house (yes, I
still live at home; I'm the only writer whose mother answers the
phone when Gary Sinise calls). For two months our lives were
transformed as a crew of 80 overtook the Philadelphia suburbs. I
slept in the basement as my own room was turned into the
protagonist's bedroom.
Art was crashing into life as we filmed the movie in the actual
locations that had inspired scenes in the novel. There are more
stories from the production than I could possibly tell here, but
suffice to say that producing a screenplay I wrote based upon my own
novel was not part of the five-year plan. I still have a very hard
time wrapping my mind around all the developments of the past
year." Tom Coyne '97, '99, MFA.
The Rising Place wins Film Awards at various Film Festivals
throughout the USA.
1. BEST DRAMATIC FEATURE - Houston Int'l Film Festival (Worldfest).
2. BEST DRAMATIC FEATURE - Malibu Int'l Film Festival.
3. 2000 CRYSTAL HEART AWARD - Heartland Film Festival.
4. BEST DRAMATIC FEATURE - Heartland Film Festival.
5. BEST DRAMATIC FEATURE - Telluride IndieFest.
6. AUDIENCE AWARD - Boston Film Festival.
The Rising Place wins Crew Awards at various Film Festivals
throughout the USA.
1. PERRY ELLIS INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD - TOM RICE (Director) Houston
Worldfest.
2. MOXIE! AWARD - TOM RICE (Producer/Director) Santa Monica Film
Festival.
3. MOXIE! AWARD - CONRAD POPE (Composer) Santa Monica Film Festival.
4. $50,000 VISIONARY GRANT - TOM RICE (Writer/Director) Heartland Film
Festival.
5. BEST DIRECTOR AWARD - TOM RICE (Director)Crossroads Film Festival.
6. BEST COSTUME DESIGN - MARK HORTON (Costume Designer) Atlantic City
Film Festival.
7. BEST FIRST-TIME DIRECTOR - TOM RICE (Director)
Atlantic City Film Festival.
The Rising Place has been SCREENED at various Film Festivals. The
film was shown at:
NEW ORLEANS INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - New Orleans
MARCO ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL - Florida
USA FILM FESTIVAL - Dallas, TX
HOUSTON WORLDFEST - Houston,TX
INDIE MEMPHIS - Memphis, TN (Opening Night Film)
MALIBU INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - Malibu, CA
SANTA MONICA INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - Santa Monica
TELLURIDE INDIEFEST - Telluride, CO
CAIRO INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - Cairo, Egypt
ST. LOUIS INT'L FILM FESTIVAL - St.Louis, MO
ATLANTIC CITY FILM FESTIVAL - Atlantic City, NJ
HEARTLAND FILM FESTIVAL - Indianapolis, IN
BOSTON FILM FESTIVAL - Boston, MA (World Premiere)
Set against the picturesque landscape of the Mississippi Delta in the
1940's, "The Rising Place" follows the close friendship of two young
women, each of a different race, and their struggle to find purpose
in their lives during this time of social injustice and world
war.
When Virginia visits her Aunt Millie at Christmas, she discovers a
stack of handwritten letters over a half century old, and unlocks the
story of her aunt's youthful days as a young woman living in
Hamilton, Mississippi, during the second World War. Beautifully shot
sequences episodically shift back and forth from the past to the
present.
In a time when a woman's place was in the home, young Emily ventures
out and falls in love with a young soldier, eventually carrying his
baby out of wedlock. With the support of her best friend Wilma Watson
and their draft-dodging companion Will Bacon, Emily is able to stand
by her convictions in a household dominated by the standards of a
salt-of-the-earth father and an unconditionally loving mother.
Despite the disapproval of society, Emily follows her heart to
overcome the prejudice of her time. MASON GAMBLE plays Melvina's son
Franklin.
With a respectable ensemble cast and original songs by JENNIFER
HOLLIDAY, THE RISING PLACE is a poignant period drama about
friendship that defies social boundaries, a devotion that can't be
broken, and a courage unlike any other.
What the media say:
1. "Beautifully shot sequences..." THE BOSTON GLOBE
2. "The Rising Place has it's heart in the right place." DALLAS
OBSERVER
3. "Tender, touching, and superbly acted." JEFFREY LYONS,
WNBC
This film is a testament to society's need for tolerance and
acceptance for those who are different, but moreso, it explores the
complex layers of relationships, focusing primarily on each
character's longing for hope and humanity. The ambient persecution,
for instance, only strengthens the bond between the two girls,
but at home, forces Emily's family to explore their differences.
While her mother proves to be more embracing, Emily's father
struggles with his understanding of unconditional love as he
desperately tries to lead his family with the values of a generation
past. Every character has a unique desire for respect and happiness,
and "The Rising Place" stands for the epipheny each character has as
they seek out their purpose in life.
Throughout her journey, Emily doesn't fight any physical battles, and
never even so much as stands on a soapbox, but she remains her own
individual, teaching by example, and in some regards, is a woman
ahead of her time. This is the story of her life, and we would all
be so lucky as to have a soul as pure and passionate as hers.
Mason Gamble flew back and forth to Jackson, Mississippi, USA for his
role in "The Rising Palace" while filming "Anya's Bell" in Salt Lake
city, USA.
THE "KATE BRASHER" EPISODE GUIDE
Regular Cast:
Kate Brasher: Mary Stuart Masterson; Abbie Schaeffer:
Rhea Perlman; Joe Almeida: Hector Elizondo; Daniel
Brasher: Gregory Smith; Elvis Brasher: Mason
Gamble.
1. PILOT EPISODE: February 24, 2001
Kate Brasher, a mother raising two teenage boys on her own after her
husband walks out, is holding down several jobs. One job, cleaning a
bowling alley, results in the cleaning crew being cheated out of $300
of the hourly wage promised by the owner. When Kate is turned down
for an advance on her pay at the diner, a police officer who
overhears while paying his diner check, gives her the card of
Brothers Keepers, a local legal aid and social action organization.
Kate helps an elderly mute woman, who has been seeking help at
Brothers Keepers, communicate her problem through a game of charades,
the attorneys decide to see if they can help and offer her a
job. Kate's two sons, Daniel and Elvis, try to help their mother make
up for the money withheld by the bowling alley manager. Elvis tracks
down the telephone number of his absent father, who weasels out again.
Daniel places a bet on a football game through a high school
classmate.
2. "SIMON": March 3, 2001
At Day Care Center of Brother's Keepers, Kate notices a grade school
boy named Simon, who displays artistic talent in painting a mural on
the playground fence. Kate decides to visit the parents, discovering
Simon's father is blind. Simon is not depressed because of problems
at home, but has been put on the drug Ritalin by the school
authorities for being hyperactive. Kate tries to convince the school
authorities to get Simon into a special school under a state program
and is concerned that the drug is in the same class as cocaine and
other dangerous drugs. On the homefront, Elvis, protests against
having to write a limerick in English class by using profane language
in the assignment. Kate's eldest son, Daniel, announces that he has
gotten a part-time job to help out with family finances.
3. "JEFF": March 10, 2001
A youth in the day care program at Brother's Keepers, shoots and
wounds Joe and Hannah. When Hannah dies from complications, Joe tries
to keep the youth from being tried as an adult. Kate tries to
convince the adopted father of a boy in the day care program to leave
his abusive gay partner and eventually succeeds. Daniel and Elvis
locate their wayward father in a local town and repossess his car for
some of the $108,000 in back child support he owes.
4. "JACKSON": March 24, 2001
Kate is assigned to help a man released from death row for a murder
he did not commit, the prosecutor intimidated a key witness who could
have supplied him with a verifiable alibi. Elvis has his head turned
by a senior girl with a bad reputation, despite the warnings of older
brother Daniel.
5. "TRACY": April 7, 2001
Tracy Delray, an aspiring professional singer, is trying to get Social
Services to return custody of her two young daughters to her. The
girls are in a foster home because Tracy was once addicted to crack.
Kate gets too personally involved with Tracy's problems. On the
homefront, Daniel is failing Algebra and finds the only tutor Kate can
afford is his younger brother, math-whiz Elvis.
6. "GEORGIA": April 14, 2001
Kate is assigned to go out into the mean streets of Los Angeles to
inform runaway teenagers about the free counseling service of
Brothers Keepers and a shelter for runaways called Grove House. On
her rounds, Kate encounters Georgia, who has run away from a town in
Ohio. Late at night, Georgia appears on Kate's front porch asking to
spend the night at Kate's house. Kate then gets Georgia permission to
attend classes at Daniel's and Elvis' high school. At school, she
persuades Daniel to blow off afternoon classes to go to the beach.
Daniel and Georgia stay into the evening, upsetting Kate, and even
kiss. Georgia confesses that she is pregnant and that her
stepfather is the father.
ANYA'S BELL. Della Reese plays the title role in ANYA'S BELL, a
touching television movie about a unique friendship between a blind
woman and a dyslexic 12-year-old boy who each take it upon themselves
to teach and encourage the other to overcome their disabilities.
Kelly Rowan and Mason Gamble also star in the movie which was
originally broadcast as the "CBS Sunday Movie," Sunday, 31st October
1999 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television network.
It's 1949 and Scott Rhymes (Mason Gamble) is caught cheating on a
spelling test in his sixth grade class. When his teacher calls in his
single mother, Jeanne (Rowan), for a conference, she informs her that
Scott will be held back a grade. When Jeanne learns that her son is
seated in what the teacher describes as the "dumb section" of his
class, she allows him to stay home from school for the short
remainder of the year.
Scott, meanwhile, works as a delivery boy for Taft's Drug Store. One
day, he delivers a prescription to an older woman named Anya Herpick
(Reese). He's thrilled when she accidentally pays him with a five
dollar bill rather than a one dollar bill, and walks out the door
without correcting her. But as he departs on his bike, his conscience
kicks in and he returns to tell Anya the truth. Impressed with his
honesty, Anya invites Scott into her home and shows him her
collection of bells -- a variety different sizes and sounds -- from
all over the world. It is then that Scott learns Anya is blind.
Intrigued with Anya's bells, Scott continues to visit his new friend.
He soon learns, however, that Anya's friend, Patrick Birmingham, is
helping her make arrangements to move away to a retirement home for
the blind, since her mother has passed away and
is no longer able to care for her. Unwilling to let her leave, Scott,
takes it upon himself to teach her how to use a rod-cane which will
allow her to get around on her own.
Meanwhile, Anya teaches Scott how to read braille, which he learns
easily. Concerned with Scott's difficulty with reading at school,
she eventually asks him to read a printed book to her. When he
confides that the words seem to be "jumbled around" on the page,
Anya's suspicions are confirmed -- that Scott is not the "retard"
that the kids have labeled him, but may have dyslexia, a then
little-known learning disability that had been diagnosed in her
friend Patrick. Their uncommon bond allows Anya to break through
Scott's fear in effort to find him help.
While never subtle "Anya's Bell" more than succeeds in its mission to
tug at the heartstrings. The filmmakers have done a handsome job of
recreating a Hollywood version of small town America, circa
1949.
Mason Gamble won an award at the 2000 Young Artist Awards for "Best
Performance in a TV Movie or a Pilot - Leading Young Actor" for his
protral of Scott Rhymes in Anya's Bell.
The film also picked up the 2000 Young Artist Awards for "Best Family
TV Movie or Pilot – Network".
While filming "Anya's Bell" in Salt Lake City, Mason Gamble flew back
and forth to Jackson, Miss. for a small role in the upcoming
feature "The Rising Palace."
The film opens with the shocking scene of Mason Gamble staggering
along in the middle of the road, eyes rolling, with blood dripping on
his training shoes. The only sequence more shocking than the film's
disturbing opener is the last, a heart-pounding, brilliantly
constructed series of events that comes close to matching the
surprise and unconventionality of Psycho's famous shower scene. No
amount of cold hard currency will force me to reveal the film's
startling denouement, but if you don't leave the theater visibly
shaken then blood does not flow in your veins.
Sandwiched between these two cinematic highpoints is a taut, tense,
pulse-quickening film which raises the question "What do your
neighbors get up to behind closed doors?" and then goes on to answer
that question in truly terrifying style.
The film stars Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, and Joan Cusack and is
directed by Mark Pellington, who shows great promise with this, his
second feature. Bridges plays Michael Faraday, a history professor at
a District of Columbia university who teaches a class on terrorism.
After helping the injured son of some new neighbors from across the
street, Bridges begins to suspect the normal-looking Langs of
plotting a diabolical scheme involving explosive devices. Normal-
looking, that is, except for Robbins' severe haircut; just one look
at that do and you know he's guilty!
Faraday's paranoia builds to national security-threatening
proportions, much to the frustration of his girlfriend
(sympathetically played by Hope Davis), and leads to a confrontation
that thrusts his whole family into immediate danger.
Perhaps the scariest thing about the film is the justifiable fear of
a normal guy realizing how little he knows about the true characters
of his closest neighbors, what they might have hidden behind drapes,
buried in basements, or locked away in attics. One of Pellington's
trump cards is that he doesn't tip the audience off earlier than
necessary in determining who's the real crazy in this drama. And he
made wise casting choices in maintaining that suspense: Bridges is
brilliant, as is Robbins, and Cusack (in a rare straight role) has
hardly been better. In addition to the fine performances, Angelo
Badalamenti's creepy score helps crank up the tension several notches.
Rushmore. Max Fischer, a boy attending the prestigious Rushmore
Academy on scholarship, where he's failing all of his classes but is
the superstar of the school's extracurricular activities - head of
the drama club, the beekeeper club, the fencing club. Possessing
boundless confidence as well as an aura of authority, Max finds two
unlikely friends in his permutations at Rushmore. An industrial
magnate and Rushmore alumnus Herman Blume (Bill Murray) and a first-
grade teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams).
Anderson and cowriter Owen Wilson have fashioned a wickedly
intelligent and wildly funny tale of young adulthood that hits all the
right notes in its mix of melancholy and optimism.
The cast is excellent. Bill Murray is great as a father who is hated
by his kids and ignored by his wife. He adopts Max Fisher, the do
everything except study Rushmore student, as his son and they become
good friends. Then they both fall in love with Olivia Williams, a
first grade teacher at Rushmore. Williams is equally affecting as the
teacher who still carries a torch for her dead husband.
Expelled from school Max goes ballistically obsessive in his passion
for the teacher. His friendship with Blume turns nasty. Suddenly Max
is no longer quite adorable. The movie turns into a juggling act,
first trying to keep many dark and weighty emotional objects aloft,
then successfully bringing them back to hand in a graceful and
satisfying way.
Rushmore contains some of the coolest moments captured on film
including the scene where a miserable Mr. Blume does a canonball from
the highdive at his pool in his Budweiser trunks and the shot where
Max exits the elevator after putting bees into Mr. Blume's hotel room
and, in slow-motion, sticks his gum against the wall. This movie
illustrates quality comedy.
The supporting cast are superb and includes a hilarious Mason Gamble
as Max's young charge. Dirk Calloway (Mason Gamble) is the best
friend that we wish we all had. Picked as Max's chapel partner, Dirk
idolizes Max, always by his side acting as his trusty sidekick and
taking part in his numerous extracurricular activities.
Name: Dirk Calloway, student at Rushmore Academy.
Affiliations: French Club, Model UN - Mexico, Debate Team, Fencing
Team, Trap & Skeet Club, Max Fischer Players, Kite Flying Society -
Co-founder.
Played by: Mason Gamble.
Quotes: "With friends like you, who needs friends?". "Why am I
telling you this? Because you're such a good friend".
You can see Mason Gamble's audition footage for Rushmore on the
RUSHMORE REGION 1 DVD. This special feature is not included on
DVD's for other regions.
"Gattaca" is a curious hybrid, with a story that encapsulates its
theme in every movement, in the densest sense of Hollywood
classicism, yet it is captured in the amber of a look as glassy and
monumental as contemporary European art movies. Ethan Hawke is an
outsider in a world a couple of centuries hence, a natural birth in a
world of genetically engineered children. Vincent Freeman. Even the
ironic name of this man -- Freeman -- who must fake his identity
through complicated borrowings of another man's blood, DNA, urine,
belongs in a world that is cool in two respects. First is writer-
director Andrew Niccol's rigidly formal, deliciously piss-elegant
direction is as determinist as the possible world he suggests; then
expressive artifacts -- clothing, cars, houses, monuments -- belong
in glossy magazines (such as wallpaper*) that celebrate the
industrial designer as the great artist of the twentieth century. The
future of "Gattaca" is as cold-blooded as the lobby of an expensive
hotel or an airline terminal, or their breathless, transient
populations.
By law, Freeman is among those left to the menial work. Society's
elite are those who are the most genetically refined, but Freeman
nurtures a dream to become an aerospace engineer for the Gattaca
Corporation. Yet complications erupt in the final weeks before he can
finally blast off a planet that has tried to dampen the unpredictable
parts of human spirit. A romance with Uma Thurman follows, as well as
a murder and an investigation by Alan Arkin, overseen by the
patrician and plummy Gore Vidal as the team leader, wittily shown as
the apotheosis of genetic perfection.
Some have rejected "Gattaca" out of hand as ponderous, suffocating
artiness, but there are few themes where this burnished, serenely
confident style could be more appropriate.
Mason Gamble plays young Vincent.
"ER" (1994) - " The Long Way Around" (Episode # 3.15) 02/13/1997.
Mason played Robert Potter in the 63rd episode of ER. In this episode
Carol is held hostage in a bungled convenience store robbery. Her
medical skills are put to their toughest test as she works feverishly
to save the gravely wounded store owner.
Guest Stars: Abraham Benrubi (Jerry) Currie Graham (Mr. Novotny) Ruth
Maleczech (Marita Novotny) Mason Gamble (Robert Potter) Jan Rubes
(Mr. Duzak) Ellen Crawford (Lydia) Yvette Freeman (Haleh) Marisol
Nichols (Angie) Nathan Davis (James) Ewan McGregor (Duncan Stewart)
Deezer D. (Malik) Lily Mariye (Lily) Lynn A. Henderson (Olbes) Mark
Morettini (Lockhart) Hector Fabregas (Javier) Richard Cotovsky
(Homeless Man) G. Riley Mills (Joseph) Robert Mohler (Kroopf) Cedric
Young (Leon).
Broadcast: 13-Feb-1997
Writer: Lydia Woodward
Director: Christopher Chulack
NOTE: Noah Wyle, Gloria Reuben and Eriq LaSalle do not appear in this
episode. This episode received Emmy nominations for Guest Actor (Ewan
McGregor), Director (Christopher Chulack), and Editing in a Single
Camera Production. It won for Editing.
Early Edition - episode Gun" (1.8). Original Airdate: November 16,
1996
Gary's efforts to prevent a child's shooting death lead him to
befriend a divorced mother of two, who keeps a gun in her house to
protect herself from her abusive ex-husband. Meanwhile, Chuck
attempts to get rid of the cat's fleas and possibly bond with him.
Mason plays Bryce one of the sons.
Written by: Robert Rabinowitz & Alex Taub
Directed by: Jace Alexander
Music by: W.G. Snuffy Walden
Edited by: Randy Roberts, A.C.E.
Production Designer: Gary Baugh
Director of Photography: Neil Roach
Co-Producers: Patrick Q. Page & Vik Rubenfeld
Producer: Robert Rabinowitz
Consulting Producer: John Romano
Co-Executive Producers: Ian Abrams & Richard Heus
Executive Producers: Lillah McCarthy, Michael Dinner, Deborah Joy
LeVine, & Bob Brush
Guest Cast:
Nikki(Ashley Crow) Kurt (Tom O'Brien) Bryce (Mason Gamble) Tommy (Joe
Bianchi) Ms. Flast (Mary Beth Fisher)
A recently orphaned boy, Noah (Mason Gamble) meets an elderly widow
in a cemetery on Christmas day, and after spending the day at her
house, finds out that they share a common bond.
Thor, a German shepherd of exceptional intelligence, is the true star
of Bad Moon. Thor goes on alert immediately when Ted (Michael Pare)
turns up at the home of his attorney-sister Janet (Mariel Hemingway),
a single mother with a 10-year-old son Brett (Mason Gamble), who has
fled Chicago to live in a house in a forest clearing somewhere in the
Pacific Northwest. When Ted says to Thor, "We're two of kind," he
isn't kidding.
In the pre-credit sequence we see Ted, a photojournalist on
assignment in a jungle in Nepal, bitten and mauled by a werewolf,
which kills Ted's lover. Plunged into a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
predicament, Ted feels his only hope in resisting the blood lust that
keeps turning him into a werewolf is to receive the love of family.
Now Janet is a terrific sister and mother, capable, self-reliant,
warm and direct, but golly, right away five hideously mangled corpses
of hikers turn up in the forest. Only Thor senses the great danger
Ted poses for Janet and Brett.
In adapting Wayne Smith's novel "Thor," writer-director Eric Red,
much to his credit, plays "Bad Moon" straight. Sure, there are places
when you'll laugh out loud--what's a horror picture without a little
comic relief? "Bad Moon," however, is not camp, spoof or a homage to
earlier movies, although "Werewolf of London" (1935), starring Henry
Hull, is glimpsed on a TV screen.
Armed with passable special effects and makeup designs that in some
moments could have been more persuasive, "Bad Moon" is a straight-
ahead horror picture with exceptionally well-written characters and
well-directed actors.
Janet is a totally contemporary take-charge woman, and Hemingway is
outstanding in her portrayal. The same goes for Pare, playing a
decent man tormented by his losing battle with evil. Gamble's Brett
is a normal 10-year-old boy, upset and perplexed more by the
increasing tension and anger in his dog than by his uncle's mood
changes.
If any animal can be said to give an actual performance, then it is
the amazingly expressive Primo as Thor. "Bad Moon" is an
unpretentious, no-fuss kind of movie that you hope will find an
audience.
A woman fell down a short flight of stairs after a screening of Spy
Hard the other night. As she got up and dusted herself off, she
explained to friends that she was still in a trance from sleeping
through most of the movie. This anecdote is offered in a spirit of
caution.
Spy Hard, is done in the style of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker Naked
Gun series, but although the style is there, the jokes aren't. Spy
Hard relies on silly slapstick, takeoffs of recent films and the
shock effect of celebrity cameos. But all that exertion doesn't add
up to more than a handful of laughs.
The opening credits are done in the style of a James Bond film,
with "Weird Al" Yankovic singing the ``Spy Hard'' theme, straining on
the high notes until finally his head explodes. From there, it's all
downhill.
The best bits come in the first few minutes -- or maybe the jokes
just seem fresher then. In the first shot, Mr. T. appears piloting a
helicopter for the film's villain, General Rancor (Andy Griffith).
Agent Dick Steele (Nielsen) blows up the helicopter, but in the next
scene Rancor is back, with prosthetic arms, ready to take over the
world.
The story is too weak to work even as a clothesline for gags. ``Spy
Hard'' eschews a coherent story and instead just strings together
movie takeoffs.
Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan, as a Russian agent, dance to "You
Never Can Tell," in a moment out of ``Pulp Fiction.'' But, typical of
Spy Hard, there's no payoff, no punch line. They just do the dance,
and the scene ends.
Later, Nielsen rides a horse in to an elevator as Arnold
Schwarzenegger did in ``True Lies.'' What's supposed to be funny in
this spoof is that when the elevator door opens, there's already a
horse inside. It's weak, but at least it's an attempt at a punch
line.
Celebrity cameos usually jolt audiences out of one reality into
another. But ``Spy Hard'' is little more than its cameos, so it comes
as no surprise to see Ray Charles driving a bus. Or Robert Culp as a
testy airline passenger. Or Dr. Joyce Brothers wrestling bad guys.
Nielsen, with his expert deadpan and sense of comic timing, creates
the illusion of humor. Thanks to him, what could have been an
unbearable experience becomes better. Mason Gamble played McCluckey.
Quotes from Spy Hard:
Thug: That's for Getting Even With Dad. And that's for My Girl. And
that's for My Girl 2.
McCluckey (Mason): I wasn't even in My Girl 2!
Both Thugs: We don't care!
There is a theory among students of television that the fatal flaw in
the "Dennis the Menace" TV series was that the Dennis character was
old enough to know better. That is not the case with the new feature-
length film "Dennis the Menace," in which the little monster and the
actor who played him (Mason Gamble of Oak Park, Chicago) were about
7. Dennis' tender years allow him the luxury of innocence, and even
Mr. Wilson, his long-suffering next-door neighbor, seems to
understand that Dennis is not malevolent, just very, very bad at
decision-making.
Cartoon movies do not often look like the cartoons that inspire them,
but "Dennis the Menace" does an uncanny job of recreating the little
world that Hank Ketchum drew for years in the famous comic panel. I
almost felt I could recognize the terrain of many of Dennis'
adventures: His yard, Mr. Wilson's yard, the driveway separating
them, and various trees, garages, lawn tools and other props. And as
Mr. Wilson, Walter Matthau captures the incredulity, the martyrdom
and what can only be called the masochism of the original. Wilson's
tendency to lose his patience tends to obscure another of his traits,
which is patience itself (who else could live next to Dennis day
after day and week after week?).
The best parts of the movie are those in which Dennis' games and
plans go astray, often in the direction of Mr. Wilson. The worst
parts involve an unnecessary and ambiguous subplot involving an
ominous drifter named Switchblade Sam (Christopher Lloyd), who
menaces the little boy.
Thirty or 40 years ago, in the innocence of a Capra movie, I might
have been able to accept this character, who is a thief and threatens
Dennis with a knife. These days, characters like that make me feel
extremely uneasy when they are around small children - and I would
imagine a lot of smaller children may be disturbed by the movie.
The good parts have a charm based on Dennis' inexorable logic. He
sees a situation, interprets it, and acts as he thinks he should. He
is almost always wrong. Wandering into Mr. Wilson's house on an
apparently necessary errand, for example, he finds Mr. Wilson in bed.
(We know that Mr. Wilson has jumped under the covers only seconds
earlier, to pretend to be sleeping in the hope that Dennis will go
away.) Dennis tries to awaken Mr. Wilson, grows alarmed by his
snoring and appearance of great fatigue, decides Mr. Wilson has a
headache, tries to give him an aspirin, and finally shoots the
aspirin into his mouth with a slingshot. All perfectly logical.
I also enjoyed the comfortable domesticity in the Wilson household,
where Wilson and his wife (a serene performance by Joan Plowright)
answer at least some of our questions about them; I always knew there
was something to define the Wilsons apart from the fact that they
lived next to the Mitchells.
Those good qualities are undermined, unfortunately, by the
Switchblade Sam character, who is dirty, threatening and scary. Of
course, he's no match for Dennis (in scenes inspired by O.
Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief"), but that doesn't explain why
producer-writer John Hughes put him into the movie in the first
place. Wasn't there a way to contrive 90 minutes of adventures for
Dennis without leaning so heavily on a character who seems menacing
to children?
A great performance from Mason Gamble as Dennis for such a young age.
The most horrible thing about life is not knowing what's going to
happen next. Or at least that's what we have thought up till now.
But "Groundhog Day," Harold Ramis's brilliantly imaginative, wildly
funny new comedy starring Bill Murray, demonstrates that there is
something even more horrible -- knowing exactly what's going to
happen next.
This isn't merely a subtext of "Groundhog Day." It is the movie's
core -- and that, along with a masterfully loony performance by
Murray, makes this the best American comedy since "Tootsie."
The movie is like some insane mongrel commingling of "It's a
Wonderful Life," "The Twilight Zone" and Luis Bunuel's "The
Exterminating Angel." Yet it is very much a film by the man who
directed Murray (with another burrowing rodent) in "Caddyshack." In
other words, it springs straight from the heart of the great
tradition of American trash surrealism, which is precisely what makes
it so immediately and delightfully accessible, so multilayered and
rich without pretension.
In the Bunuel film, sterling aristocrats gather for dinner, but
afterward find themselves inexplicably trapped in the dining room,
perhaps, they fear, for all eternity. This is something like what
happens to Phil, a self-important Pittsburgh weatherman, except that
there is nothing sterling about Phil and, if anything, his situation
is even more disturbingly peculiar.
Phil is not a liked man, nor is he likable; he is, in short, a case
of walking halitosis, which makes him a perfect character for Murray.
At the beginning of the picture he, his fetching new producer (Andie
MacDowell) and his cameraman (Chris Elliot) make their annual winter
pilgrimage to Punxsutawney, Pa., to visit another Phil, the world's
most famous weather forecaster, on Groundhog Day.
From the outset, it's a toss-up as to which Phil is more rodentlike.
The human Phil looks upon this assignment with the grim anticipation
of a man facing the gallows. Certainly, he's far too big a star for
this kind of Hicksville human-interest stuff, and his mission seems
to be to make everyone he comes into contact with as miserable as he
is. All he wants to do is shoot the segment, pack up the gear and get
back to Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, a blizzard blocks the roads and
downs all the phone lines, so all he can do is head back to his
hotel, pull the covers over his head and wait for tomorrow.
Only tomorrow never comes.
At 6 a.m., the radio alarm clock next to his bed awakens him, just as
it had the day before, with the same song -- Sonny and Cher
singing "I Got You, Babe" -- and the same inane patter. When the
hotel clerk, the restaurant hostess, his producer, his cameraman --
everyone -- all speak exactly the same words they had spoken to him
the day before, Phil realizes he has a problem. He's stuck in his own
private Hades, in Punxsutawney, on Feb. 2.
After a few days of this, most films would run out of invention and
grow tiresome. But Ramis, who wrote the script with Danny Rubin,
comes up with so many inspired variations on the day's events, and
runs Murray through so many different reactions to his ordeal, that
we never grow bored.
How could we, with Murray ricocheting from elation to suicidal
despair to depressed resignation? Murray is a breed unto himself, a
sort of gonzo minimalist. And he's never been funnier as a comedian
or more in control as an actor than he is here. It's easily his best
movie.
After absorbing the initial shock, Phil becomes giddy with his new-
found freedom. His actions, he discovers, have no consequences
whatsoever. He can eat anything, drink anything, do anything to
anybody, and tomorrow morning at 6, the slate is wiped clean. Being
the sleaze that he is, he immediately takes full advantage -- setting
up beautiful women today for tomorrow's seduction, robbing banks and
performing minor miracles.
Phil's main target, though, is Rita (MacDowell), his producer, a
sweet, smart, kindhearted beauty who under normal circumstances would
brush him off like so much dandruff. But one night, after trying and
trying again, day after day, compiling lists of her favorite poems,
her favorite songs, her favorite ice cream flavors, he is able to
break down her resistance and almost get her into bed.
This near-miss is the best he can manage, though, and he decides,
first, to drive himself off a cliff, then to electrocute himself,
step in front of a bus, and, finally, hurl himself off a high
building. But it's no go. Come the morn, he's back where he started.
Though bewitchingly pretty, MacDowell has never really found her
niche in the movies, but playing this knucklehead brand of modern
screwball comedy, she has finally come into her own. Her scenes with
Murray have an otherworldly sort of chemistry (with Murray, what else
is possible?). And his vermin eccentricity releases a charming
flakiness in her; for the first time, her endearing awkwardness
really seems to work.
Ramis has always been a better actor and writer than director. But
here he shows remarkably keen comic timing, especially in the way he
surprises us by cutting, at just the right instant, from one high
point to another.
With a script as beautifully complex as this one, Ramis and his cast
have half of their work done for them. There is a moral to the tale
as well, and it even strikes an uplifting note. But, for once, the
audience isn't forced to surrender its intelligence (or its healthy
cynicism) to embrace the film's sunny resolution. When Phil has his
change of heart, he doesn't suddenly become a stranger. He's the same
man, the same jerk, but a far wiser, more likable jerk.
With another star, the movie's message might have been insufferably
icky. But Murray's double-jointed ironic charm is our insurance
against dishonest optimism. If this caterpillar becomes a butterfly,
it's a butterfly with a lot of worm left in him.
This was Mason Gamble acting debut in an uncredited role.
FILMOGRAPHY:
1.Gentleman's Game, A (2001) .... Timmy Price
2.Rising Place, The (2001) .... Franklin Pou
3."Kate Brasher" (2001) TV Series .... Elvis Brasher
4.Anya's Bell (1999) (TV) .... Scott Rhymes
5.Arlington Road (1999) .... Brady Lang
6.Rushmore (1998) .... Dirk Calloway
7.Gattaca (1997) .... Younger Vincent
8.Just in Time (1996) ....
9.Bad Moon (1996) .... Brett
10.Spy Hard (1996) .... McCluckey
11.Dennis the Menace (1993) .... Dennis Mitchell <br>... aka Dennis
(1993)(UK)
12.Groundhog Day (1993) – Uncredited
TV GUEST APPEARENCES:
1."ER" (1994) playing "Robert Potter" in episode: "Long Way Around,
The" (episode # 3.15) 2/13/1997
2."Early Edition" (1996) playing "Bryce Porter" in episode: "Gun"
(episode # 1.8) 11/16/1996
COMMERCIALS:
1.Home Depot
2.MTV Movie Awards: The Max Fischer Players Present "The Truman Show"
AWARDS:
1. Young Artist Award Best Youth Actor Leading Role in a Motion
Picture Comedy (1994) - Dennis the Menace (1993) – Won.
2. Young Artist Award (1999) – Rushmore (1998) - Nominated.
3. YoungStar Award Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Comedy Film
(1999) - Rushmore (1998) – Nominated.
4. Hollywood Reporter Young Star Award (1999) – Nominated.
5. Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot -
Leading Young Actor (2000) for Anya's Bell (1999) – Nominated.
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