Sam Pillsbury
Total Credits at Criticker: 19 (Director), 2 (Writer)
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A Mother's Instinct (1996) - TV Movie
Divorcee, Holly Mitchell, remarries widower, Carl Gibbons, the father of two small boys. When she begins to question his past, he disappears with the boys. She then learns that the boys' mother is still alive, having been deserted five years ago. The two 'wives' join forces to find him and the boys. (imdb)
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Willy the whale is back, this time threatened by illegal whalers making money off sushi. Jesse, now 16, has taken a job on an orca-researching ship, along with old friend Randolph and a sarcastic scientist, Drew. On the whaler's ship is captain John Wesley and his son, Max, who isn't really pleased about his father's job, but doesn't have the gut to say so. Along the way, Willy reunites with Jesse, who helps Max realize that whales are a little more than just cheese burgers. (imdb)
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Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johhny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair. (imdb)
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After 20 years in the army, Will Bastion (Morrison) is forced to resign. He returns home to Raukura to bury his father, the chief of the Ngati Kaipuku iwi. Estranged from his roots, he rejects his birthright to inherit that mantle which then passes to his younger brother, firebrand Kahu (Makoare). Mounted on a white stallion, Kahu charges directly into the funeral ceremony, unleashing a chain of events which will forever change the destiny of the iwi.
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Surfing is taken seriously in Ventura, Calif., and for JD (Khan Chittenden) and his shorts-wearing, job-hating, water-loving crew, nothing is more righteous than tracking down the heinous San Fernando Valley thief who's stolen JD's awesome custom-built surfboard. Veteran surfer Mike Mooney (character actor Matthew Lillard) encourages the dudes' antics as they gather clues, rally the locals and turn their fun-filled summer into a moral mission. (netflix.com)
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Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) - TV Movie
Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. (imdb)
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Three escaped convicts hide out in the home a reclusive woman as they wait to catch a ferry.
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Based on the novel by Wilson Rawls, this is a story of a boy, Billy Coleman, who sets his heart on acquiring his own hunting dogs. After months of hard work, Billy saves up enough to purchase two young pups named Old Dan and Little Ann. He trains them to hunt racoons, and eventually enters them in the annual hunting contest.
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Shadows of Desire (1994) - TV Movie
A woman is torn between her love for a gentle man, and her secret passion for his dangerous brother. (imdb)
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Thrill (1996) - TV Movie
A disgruntled worker rigs a bomb, triggered by a motion sensor, on the roller coaster at a financially troubled amusement park. (imdb)
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Into the Badlands (1991) - TV Movie
A bounty hunter searches the west for a wanted outlaw named Red Roundtree. (imdb)
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Visions of Terror (1994) - TV Movie
Dr. Jesse Newman (Barbara Eden) is assigned to treating David (Michael Nouri) a grieving policeman who lost his partner in a shootout. It seems the case is solved, until a lucky coin belonging to David's partner triggers a revealing series of psychic visions for Dr. Newman. The visions not only implicate the killer, but also reveal the sordid habits of San Francisco's business and political elite.
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Between Love and Honor (1995) - TV Movie
Steve Collura is an undercover cop out to infiltrate Carlo Gambino's mob. He soon falls in love with Gambino's daughter Maria and must make a choice between his duties as a police officer, his love for Maria, and his allegiance to Carlo Gambino.
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The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay (2003) - TV Movie
Alison Dodge, a 17-year old raised by her mother, decides on her own to spend her last summer before college getting to know her father Al, who wasn't at all waiting for another eternally yapping, meddling, domestic girl in his quiet, supporting life in Arizona backwater Moonlight Bay, by a lake. After a rocky start, she stays and both are faced with each-other and themselves.
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Sins of Silence (1996) - TV Movie
A former nun who has become a rape counselor defies a court order to release her file on a rape victim.
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Audrey's Rain (2003) - TV Movie
Jean Smart and Richard Gilliland star in "Audrey's Rain" for Hallmark. Jean plays Aunt Audrey, who took in her sister's two kids after her sister's recent suicide.
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Knight Rider 2010 (1994) - TV Movie
Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an apocalyptic time and a new "KITT". (imdb)
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The same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam and Les are robbed of all of their hard earned hens. In the quest for their hens they cross the murderer's path. (imdb)
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Taking Back Our Town (2001) - TV Movie
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, fledgling activists face the full force of Shintech's wealth and influence peddling, which has bought the cooperation of the government from the local level all the way up to the Governor's office.
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