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Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
7.7/10
Director: Mick Jackson
Starring: James Woods, Mercedes Ruehl, Henry Thomas
The McMartin child abuse trial - 6 years and 16 million dollars - the longest and most expensive trial in history is recreated in this hard-hitting, r... Read more
For Roseanna ( Roseanna's Grave ) (1997)
7.2/10
Director: Paul Weiland
Starring: Polly Walker, Mercedes Ruehl, Jean Reno
A.k.a. "Roseanna's Grave". A warm, infectious film centering on Roseanna (Mercedes Ruehl) who expresses the desire to be buried next to her prematurel... Read more
The Fisher King (1991)
7.6/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl
Terry Gilliam's ('Brazil', The Adventures of Baron Munchausen') thoughtful, magical offering deals with life's quest, the Holy Grail, free video club... Read more
Lost In Yonkers (1993)
6.7/10
Director: Martha Coolidge
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth
Neil Simon's Pulitzer prize-winning comedy-drama about a struggling widower who leaves his two sons with his steely German mother and his sweet but si... Read more
Gia (1997)
7/10
Director: Michael Cristofer
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Angelina Jolie, Mercedes Ruehl, Elizabeth Mitchell
She was called America's first supermodel, but while her face made her an international celebrity, her insatiable desires for fame, sex and drugs led... Read more
What's Cooking? (2000)
7.1/10
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard
A Jewish, Vietnamese, Latino and African-American family each assemble for their own version of the Thanksgiving holiday where conflicts quickly arise... Read more
Married to the Mob (1988)
6.1/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Dean Stockwell, Matthew Modine, Mercedes Ruehl, Michelle Pfeiffer
There's loads of larcenous laughs in Jonathan Demme's offbeat comedy of Mafia manners. When Michelle Pfeiffer's hit man husband is bumped off, she tri... Read more
The Minus Man (1999)
6.2/10
Director: Hampton Fancher
Starring: Owen Wilson, Janeane Garofalo, Brian Cox, Mercedes Ruehl, Dwight Yoakam, Dennis...
An odd and eerie suspenser directed by 'Blade Runner' scripter Hampton Fancher, with Owen Wilson playing against type as Vann Siegert, a cold-blooded... Read more
See No Evil, Hear No Evil / Stir Crazy / Another You (1989)
Director: Arthur Hiller, Maurice Phillips, Sidney Poitier
Starring: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Anthony Zerbe, Mercedes Ruehl, Steph...
A triple feature comedy featuring the partnership of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. "See No Evil, Hear No Evil" (1989, 106 mins.) - The third pairing... Read more
Spooky House (2002)
5.4/10
Director: William Sachs
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Mercedes Ruehl, Jason Fuchs, Ronald Joshua Scott, Simon Baker, Myl...
Ben Kingsley and Mercedes Ruehl star in this wonderful family film, with Kingsley playing a reclusive magician who lives in an old mansion rigged with... Read more
Last Action Hero (1993)
6.3/10
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance, Frank McRae,...
Schwarzenegger's 'Heaven's Gate'. Big, loud, expensive ... but with plenty of satire which was missed by many first time around. Worth re-assessing in... Read more