Movies with Peter MacNeill

Frequency

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi

Starring: Andre Braugher, Dennis Quaid, Noah Emmerich, Peter MacNeill, Elizabeth Mitchell, James Caviezel, Shawn Doyle

Directors: Gregory Hoblit

Country: USA

Year: 2000

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via short-wave radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that changing history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history--again.

 

Leslie, My Name Is Evil aka Manson, My Name Is Evil

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Starring: Kristin Adams, Don McKellar, Peter MacNeill, Kristen Hager, Gregory Smith, Ryan Robbins, Matt Murphy

Directors: Reginald Harkema

Country: Canada

Year: 2009

Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he becomes a jury member at her hippie death cult murder trial.

 

The Good Witch's Garden

Genres: Family, Fantasy

Starring: Rob Stewart, Peter MacNeill, Daniel Magder, Chris Potter, Catherine Bell, Eve Crawford, Matthew Knight

Directors: Craig Pryce

Country: Canada

Year: 2009

Middleton prepares for its bicentennial, and Grey House is to be the party venue. Good witch Cassie is remodeling it as B&B. her first and only guest, Nick Chasen, claims to be a distant relative. He produces papers to prove he's the heir of the builder, colonial era captain Hamblin, while the Grey lady was his mistress and stole it. Police chief and lover Jake Russell goes all the way to motivate her to fight and disprove the claim before she's effectively disowned. Brandon is dared to pass a rascals-initiation by local brat Steve and Duke. George's gardening skills lead to romance.

 

The Good Witch

Genres: Family, Fantasy

Starring: Aaron Berg, Peter MacNeill, Chris Potter, Catherine Bell, Jesse Bostick, Matthew Knight, Paula Boudreau

Directors: Craig Pryce

Country: Canada

Year: 2008

Jake Russell, the friendly police chief in town so small initially worries about outsider heiress Cassandra 'Cassie' Nightingale, who moved into the house held to be haunted by the 'grey lady', and opens a weird shop full with attributes of occultism, soon causing the rumor she's a wicked witch. After Cassie kindly helps his brave son Brandon (and his sissy sister Lori) with a dog, bully Kyle -abused by his own poor dad- and their own fears, Jake soon makes friends with her, even romantically interested. Yet the 'chief' is professionally obliged to handle a flood of complaints and harassment started by the mayor's mean wife, her busy bodies-b...

 

The Marsh

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Starring: Forest Whitaker, Peter MacNeill, Justin Louis, Gabrielle Anwar, Bill MacDonald, Joe Dinicol, Jessica Greco

Directors: Jordan Barker

Country: Canada

Year: 2006

The successful children's writer Claire Holloway is troubled by scary nightmares and is under psychological treatment. While working out watching television, she sees the landscape of the Rose Marsh Farm in the Westmoreland County, and she notes that the farmhouse is linked to her nightmares. She decides to spend her vacation in the farm, which is located nearby a swamp, and she is haunted by the ghosts of a little girl and a teenage boy inside the house. She is befriended by the local publisher and historian Noah Pitney but after a sequence of disturbing visions, she decides to contact the paranormal consultant Geoffry Hunt. Together, they i...

 

Talk to Me

Genres: Drama, History, Biography

Starring: Mike Epps, Peter MacNeill, Don Cheadle, Taraji P. Henson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Cedric the Entertainer

Directors: Kasi Lemmons

Country: USA

Year: 2007

Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

The true life story of Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo's brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run ...

 

My Family's Secret

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Starring: Peter MacNeill, Claudia Jurt, Nicholle Tom, Philip Riccio, Dylan Neal, Janet-Laine Green, Cinthia Burke

Directors: Curtis Crawford

Country: Canada

Year: 2010

Grady suffers from multiple personality disorder. Lara doesn't know she just angered the most dangerous one.

 

Sea Wolf

Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama

Starring: Neve Campbell, Wayne Robson, Tim Roth, Peter MacNeill, Julian Richings, John Beale, Hugh Thompson

Directors: Mike Barker

Country: Germany, Canada

Year: 2009

Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen. An adaptation of Jack London's 1904 novel "The Sea-Wolf".

 

The Caveman's Valentine

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore, Anthony Michael Hall, Ann Magnuson, Peter MacNeill, Richard Fitzpatrick, Rodney Eastman

Directors: Kasi Lemmons

Country: USA

Year: 2001

Romulus is mentally ill, a troglodyte in a New York City park. He's also a gifted composer and the father of a city cop. On Valentine's Day, a young man freezes in a tree near his cave. The police determine it's the accidental death of someone behaving bizarrely, but Romulus believes a friend of the dead youth who says that noted avant-garde photographer, David Leppenraub, murdered him. Romulus, urged on by hallucinations of his wife as a young woman, resolves to catch the killer and manages to be invited to Leppenraub's farm to play a new composition. Can Romulus hold it together long enough to get to the bottom of the death and also to make...

 

Open Range

Genres: Romance, Drama, Western

Starring: Robert Duvall, James Russo, Annette Bening, Michael Jeter, Kevin Costner, Michael Gambon, Diego Luna

Directors: Kevin Costner

Country: USA

Year: 2003

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

This tale of the Old West (let's avoid the term western) works on many fronts. It blends the expected violence with pathos, romance, and even comedy. The film opens with four cow hands (Robert Duvall as Boss; Kevin Costner as Charlie Waite; Abraham Benrubi as Mose, the gentle, boy-like cook; and Diego Luna, as Buttons, a 16 year old Spanish kid that has been taken in by the older cowboys) pushing a cattle herd. After a hard rain, Boss determines that Mose needs to go back to a town they passed and get extra supplies. When he fails to return, the two older men go after him. They find he has been beaten by a local rancher's men and then arreste...

 

Angel Eyes

Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama

Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Monet Mazur, Shirley Knight, Terrence Howard, Peter MacNeill, James Caviezel, Jeremy Sisto

Directors: Luis Mandoki

Country: USA

Year: 2001

Two emotionally scarred people, Sharon Pogue and Steve 'Catch' Lambert meet and slowly fall in love. Sharon is a Chicago police officer who grew up in a dysfunctional home. Her father would at times get violent with her mother and while he would never touch her, the psychological damage was done. She is haunted not only by her family environment but that she is now shunned by her father after she reported him to the police. For Catch, a tragic accident he blames on himself has resulted in him blocking out the past. He lives alone in an unfurnished apartment refusing to acknowledge the tragedy in his past. As they get to know and trust one ano...

 

Crash

Genres: Thriller, Drama

Starring: Elias Koteas, Peter MacNeill, Holly Hunter, James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Markus Parilo, Boyd Banks

Directors: David Cronenberg

Country: UK, Canada

Year: 1996

Since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring, a former TV scientist has become obsessed by the marriage of motor-car technology with what he sees as the raw sexuality of car-crash victims. The scientist, along with a crash victim he has recently befriended, sets about performing a series of sexual acts in a variety of motor vehicles, either with other crash victims or with prostitutes whom they contort into the shape of trapped corpses. Ultimately, the scientist craves a suicidal union of blood, semen, and engine coolant, a union with which he becomes dangerously obsessed.

 

A History of Violence

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Starring: Ashton Holmes, Viggo Mortensen, Aidan Devine, Peter MacNeill, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Maria Bello

Directors: David Cronenberg

Country: Germany, USA

Year: 2005

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

In Millowbrook, Indiana, the mild Tom Stall owns a bar and has a calm life with his beloved wife Edie, his teen-aged son Jack, and his little daughter Sarah. His life turns upside-down when her kills two cold-blooded killers in his bar to protect his waitress, becoming a local hero and being shown in the front page of the local news and on TV. The next day, mobster Carl Fogarty comes to the town, calling him Joey Cusack and telling that he was a former hit man. When Carl and his men threaten his family, Tom defends them, and violence is released in a chain reaction.