Black Point

Starring:David Caruso, Susan Haskell, Thomas Ian Griffith, Eileen Pedde, Alex Bruhanski, Gordon Tootoosis, Travis MacDonald, Mike Dopud, Daryl Shuttleworth, Anthony Ulc, Marc Baur, Patrick Phillips (IV), Gus Lynch, John Tench, Bethoe Shirkoff, Drew Reichelt, Christopher R. Sumpton, Darryl Quon, Gail Gus, Miguel Sandoval
Director: David Mackay
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

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In this would-be noir thriller, Black Point is the name of the fishing village where ex-navy guy John Hawkins (David Caruso) meets up with Natalie (Susan Haskell), an angelic blonde with a dangerous, domineering husband (Thomas Ian Griffith) with criminal connections. Caruso tries to rescue her, only to be sucked into a series of double-crosses that leave a lot of dead bodies in their wake. If that description sounds generic, it's because Black Point is generic--it's cobbled together from made-for-cable thrillers and dim memories of much better movies. Fans of Caruso will enjoy his dependably earnest machismo. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

Loved It.......2007-01-13

Perfect! This is a good movie, full of different twists and angles, and just visually good.

Great for Any David Caruso Fan!.......2006-11-12

If you're a fan of David Caruso, then I highly recommend this movie. I think it is one of his best films. The story line is also great for anyone who likes suspense.

An existential Noir!.......2006-04-01

A man who has lost he had. His wife abandoned him because his daughter missed. These awful memories have made of him a living wreck, without illusions and hopes.

On the other hand we have a woman who lives inside a gold ` s cage. She is absolutely unable to make a decision by her own.

Eventually they will meet and a very intense and well elaborated puzzled script will make of this thriller one of the most intense and original ones made in years, where the greed, double and triple crossed, unexpected allies, ambition are some of the main ingredients of this well made drama.

Recycled Crime Drama.......2003-01-25

"Black Point" was an enjoyable watching experience. Thomas Ian Griffith from "Hollow Point" and "Excessive Force" plays the heavy Gus & also gets a screenwriting credit. The plot is intricate enough to keep our attention, but not unique enough to be memorable. David Caruso as the ex-Vet John Hawkins displays his usual intensity. Currently riding high as Horatio on "CSI Miami," Caruso never really seems to play a different character, but is certainly good at the gritty realism which he brings to the role. "One Life to Live"'s Susan Haskell is beautiful and comes across as innocent and crafty, which is an interesting mix. It was never clear to me why she winds up in jail since all of her actions were done in self defense. Thus, the ending was not satisfying for me. The issue of brutality against women where the husband beats her and rapes her is used more as a plot mechanism than a real issue in the film; for me that is a major flaw. The smaller roles are well done, the sheriff, the deputy, and Bear, the best friend. For those who like the crime genre, David Caruso is the reason to watch. While the film is not the most original one you're likely to view, it's a good evening's entertainment. Enjoy!

How Come I Never Heard of this Movie????.......2002-10-26

I picked this movie up as a rental because nothing else in the store caught my eye at the time. I have always liked David Caruso for his on-screen believability and I was not disappointed here. This guy is a terrific actor who gets the viewer on his side, in spite of his sometimes outrageous behavior. I also remembered knowing that Susan Haskell had been (maybe still is) a soap star and thinking that she was attractive. I was right about that too...she is WAY attractive and also a very compelling actress.
This movie takes place in Alaska and Washington state and the Washington scenery is beautiful and the image quality of the DVD is superb. There are other great characters and several significant and totally unexpected plot twists that are pulled off without a hitch. The actors all work well together. Unlike many of today's movies, the plot, while somewhat far-fetched, is plausible and provides for some great opening action on which one side of the story hinges (3.5 million in stolen money.) The other story line involves an abused girlfriend (Haskell) and a broken ex tactical munitions expert (Caruso) who's 6 year old daughter was kidnapped 2 years previous. These two clearly need each other and how the money story becomes integrated with the beaten Haskell and Caruso make for the movies high tension level. Enough said of the story. If you want to see a very good movie with a taught plot, great acting, believable characters, several awesome twists without a fairy-tale ending, then this one's for you. With all the overblown, over-hyped, overly violent fare out there, I was happy to find this unexpected pleasure which far exceeded my expectations.

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"I want to be accepted for who I am"
Jordan's autobiographical fantasia

Lost In the Pershing Point Hotel
Starring: Carlos Gomez , Marilu Henner , Leslie Jordan , Kris Kamm , and Kathy Kinney
Director: Julia Jay Pierrepont III
Manufacturer: Ariztical
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2005-01-11

Product Description

Experience a quirkier, sexy side of the south! Leslie Jordan, ("Sordid Lives"), is stuck in gay mans Purgatory, where he must plead his case before God. Storyteller (Jordan) arrives after an overdose from the Pershing Point Hotel. His monologue winds the wicked tales of Tripper (Mark Pelligrino), the handsome hustler, and Miss Make Do (Erin Chandler), the destitute debutant. "Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel" is a dark comedy that traces the incredible escape from an oppressive Southern Baptist upbringing to a pilgrimage of salvation: the drugs and clubs of 1970s gay Atlanta. Join Marilu Henner, John Ritter, Arthur Hiller, Kathy Kinney, Michelle Phillips and Sheryl Lee Ralph to follow the adventures of three mismatched runaways. Their razors edge ride through life has them searching for personal identity in society that would throw them out with the trash.

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"I want to be accepted for who I am".......2005-04-29

Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel is a low budget independent movie that raises some serious and rather interesting issues about faith, belief, and the value of life. And while the execution is sometimes shoddy, the narrative overly didactic, and the message sometimes too preachy, the film has an honesty, and integrity that makes for a quite involving 100 minutes or so. The story, originally from a stage play, tells of one gay man's upbringing and hardships growing up in the South. The film concentrates on his life during the heady days of the 1970's where he gets involved in the Atlanta party scene and the underground gay drug culture.

After a drug overdose, the main protagonist, (Leslie Jordan) known as the storyteller narratives this rather sad, reflective story just as he's preparing to meet God. He tells us that he grew up in an oppressive Southern Baptist Household where homosexuality was considered a moral evil, and where one must sublimate one's desires to the greater glory of God. In order to cope, he spends years renouncing sex, until at the ripe old age of forty, where, styling himself as type of a Lilliputian dandy à la Truman Capote, he leaves his sheltered home for the bright lights of Atlanta.

Upon arriving in the big city he meets debutante refugee and drug connoisseur Miss Make-Do (Erin Chandler) who introduces him to the wonderful world of chemicals and the film's ostensible hotel Pershing Point, a low-rent Chelsea-like dive full of addicts, drag queens, and gangsters. After his benefactress kicks him out for taking up with a thuggish coke dealer, the wretched foppish protagonist finds another protector in Tripper, a roughneck junkie, ex-con, and pimp. The two form a weird platonic and dependent relationship that eventually spirals into an opiate oblivion.

Much of the film looks as though it was filmed on a sound stage, with the action bathed in hues of gold, blue and red; from the outset the film has a theatrical and overly dramatic quality that actually works well with the contentious subject matter. Anyone who is familiar with the gay, inner city party scene will immediately be familiar with many of the scenarios. The storyteller and Miss Make-Do swallow pills like candy and snort endless lines of coke, until of course, their addled lifestyle catches up with them.

Written by Jordan and purportedly based on his own life experiences, the film's themes will probably strike at the heart of any gay man who has ever had a crisis of faith, or has left a small hick town for life in the big city. Jordan is surprisingly good in the lead role, and he manages to combine a mixture of dandified foppishness with middle-aged cragginess to great effect.

The supporting cast is also terrific, with Chandler doing a great job of playing a coke addled, spoilt little rich girl. Watch out for the scene when they both overdose on MDA while shopping in a second clothes shop - it's horrific in its implications, but it's also a riot. Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel could have been about 20 minutes shorter - the pace becomes a little labored towards the end, and Jordan places a little too much emphasis on his crisis of faith, but I think the movie will appeal to those who like their movies somewhat edgy, alternative, and underground. Mike Leonard April 05.

Jordan's autobiographical fantasia.......2005-04-11

Leslie Jordan, the talented pint-sized actor who makes frequent hilarious guest spots on "Will & Grace," wrote this autographical tale which was formally produced as an off-Broadway play. How much of it is true-to-life would be interesting to know but suffice to say, he was come a long way since the depressing drug-hazed disco 70s in which most of the action takes place.

The film starts out with The Storyteller (Jordan) being loaded into an ambulance and then telling his story to the Almighty in an all-white purgatory. Beginning with some quite hilarious scenes of his childhood, in which he shocks his religious fanatical parents with his confessions of being gay, he lives with them until his late 30s and then flees to Atlanta, the "gay mecca" that he has read about in magazines. Arriving at the seedy Pershing Point Hotel, he immediately makes friends with an ostracized debutante whom he christens "Miss Make-Do." Miss Make-Do (Erin Chandler in a terrific natural performance) is a drug addict who works as a go-go dancer and sometimes hooker to finance her drug habit.

Miss Make-Do and our hero eventually have a falling out and he then hooks up with a straight bad boy named Tripper (excellently played by Mark Pellegrino). Their platonic and depressing relationship, living in the dire straits of a basement, showcases some of the film's best writing and most earnest scenes. Back in purgatory, Jordan cuts loose with some penetrating comments on the nature of God and being gay.

Shot on a small budget, the film nevertheless sports a professional look and the cinematographer has diffused many of the 70s scenes with green and red hues that illustrate the seediness of the situation. The supporting players are as fine as the leading actors. John Ritter appears as a minister in one of the film's early scenes. Kathy Kinney has a brief but funny sequence in a doctor's waiting room and Sheryl Lee Ralph is hilarious as a holy-roller nurse.

An interesting film but not all that entertaining, fans of Leslie Jordan might want to take a look at it. Unfortuately there are no extras and a commentary by Jordan is really needed.

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Loved It
Great for Any David Caruso Fan!
An existential Noir!
Recycled Crime Drama
How Come I Never Heard of this Movie????

Black Point
Starring: David Caruso , Susan Haskell , Thomas Ian Griffith , Miguel Sandoval , and Eileen Pedde
Director: David Mackay
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Customer Reviews:

Loved It.......2007-01-13

Perfect! This is a good movie, full of different twists and angles, and just visually good.

Great for Any David Caruso Fan!.......2006-11-12

If you're a fan of David Caruso, then I highly recommend this movie. I think it is one of his best films. The story line is also great for anyone who likes suspense.

An existential Noir!.......2006-04-01

Recycled Crime Drama.......2003-01-25

How Come I Never Heard of this Movie????.......2002-10-26

THE CASTILIAN with Cesar Romero, Frankie Avalon and Broderick Crawford. (Import edition-NTSC format-Region 1-Playable in North America)

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THE CASTILIAN with Cesar Romero, Frankie Avalon and Broderick Crawford. (Import edition-NTSC format-Region 1-Playable in North America)

Manufacturer: Best Movie Collection
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B000N54RTC

Product Description

Brand new, factory sealed, DVD manufactured in Taiwan. NTSC Region 1, playable in North America. Full screen color image. Original English dialog. Optional subtitles in Chinese or English do not appear unless you go to the subtitles menu and turn them on. On screen menus are in English and are easy to use. Cast includes Cesar Romero, Frankie Avalon, Broderick Crawford and Alida Valli. The following review appears in the Internet Movie Database: "This Spaniard historical film is based on epic events and Spanish historic personages,thus appear:Fernan Gonzalez(923-970),King Sancho of Navarra,King Ramiro II of Lion and AbderramanIII. Movie concerns about the count of Castile Fernan Gonzalez(Espartaco Santoni)helped by his general(Cesar Romero)troops who arranged themselves to unify and make independent Castile from kingdom Lion ruled by Ramiro II(Fernando Rey and married with Alida Valli)and confronted against the king Sancho of Navarra(Broderick Crawford).Fernan was imprisoned(943)but was freed later. Fernan Gonzalez ,also count of Lara, broke the tribute one hundred maids with the Moors governed by Abderraman III(German Cobos) proclaimed caliph independent of Cordoba granting independence of Bagdag.The Christians kingdoms were united against the Muslim enemy and vanquished them in Simancas.Fernan Gonzalez created the county of Castile with title inherited and his successors will separate totally from Lion. Fernan Gonzalez history has been sung and written poetry by jesters and minstrels(in the film represented by the singer Frankie Avalon)."

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Jesus Is the Balm
Starring: Eugene Cole & Persuaded
Manufacturer: Point of Grace Ent
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music

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Release Date: 2004-07-27

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Loved It
Great for Any David Caruso Fan!
An existential Noir!
Recycled Crime Drama
How Come I Never Heard of this Movie????

Black Point [Region 2]
Starring: David Caruso , Susan Haskell , Thomas Ian Griffith , Miguel Sandoval , and Eileen Pedde
Director: David Mackay
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Customer Reviews:

Loved It.......2007-01-13

Perfect! This is a good movie, full of different twists and angles, and just visually good.

Great for Any David Caruso Fan!.......2006-11-12

If you're a fan of David Caruso, then I highly recommend this movie. I think it is one of his best films. The story line is also great for anyone who likes suspense.

An existential Noir!.......2006-04-01

Recycled Crime Drama.......2003-01-25

How Come I Never Heard of this Movie????.......2002-10-26

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Black Point

Manufacturer: Black Points Films
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B000GI0YY8

The New Black : What Happens When You See a Bird?

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The New Black : What Happens When You See a Bird?
Starring: Patrick Gough , and Tracey Thomas
Director: Andrew Williamson
Manufacturer: F/19 Productions
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

Product Description

The New Black is an absurd drama about Randy, a mild mannerd twenty something who is building a life. He has a job and a live-in girl friend, Stephanie, a controlling catty woman, who has taken over his life. Randy is aware of this, but feels powerless to change anything. It is not until Randy suffers an injury that lands him in a back brace, that he begins to see things differently.

At Sword's Point with Cornel Wilde and Maureen O'hara (Import Edition) (Ntsc Format, Region 1, Playable in North America)

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Valiant Maureen
Best Version of the Three Musketeers.

At Sword's Point with Cornel Wilde and Maureen O'hara (Import Edition) (Ntsc Format, Region 1, Playable in North America)
Director: Lewis Allen
Manufacturer: Best Movie Collection
ProductGroup: DVD
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Product Description

Brand new, factory sealed, DVD manufactured in Taiwan. NTSC Region 1, playable in North America. Full screen color image. Original English dialog. Optional subtitles in Chinese or English do not appear unless you go to the subtitles menu and turn them on. On screen menus are in English and are easy to use. Cast includes Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Douglas and Gladys Cooper. The following review appears in Amazon for the VHS edition: "We were in our Cornel Wilde phase when we bought this video. And, granted, Wilde is a sumptuous feast for the eyes in the film. A champion fencer before he burst onto the entertainment scene, he struts his stuff here, performing his own impressive stunts to perfection. Maureen O'Hara, deservedly dubbed the Queen of Technicolor, is an undeniable vision, with her flashing green eyes and her lush red hair. She portrays the daughter of Artho, a famed Musketeer, and she is easily the match of any man with a sword. Admittedly, the storyline is an intriguing one, with the beseiged Queen of France summoning the sons (and, unbeknownst to her, one daughter) of the original Musketeers to rush to the aid of her beloved country. And, while the climactic uprising of the oppressed French populace stirred us in this, our own, era of powerless citizenry, I must warn you that the film plays like something at a kiddie matinee. The plot is simplistic and the acting stilted. It is beautifully crafted, however - an innocent trifle worthy of a rainy afternoon viewing."

Customer Reviews:

Valiant Maureen.......2007-05-22

How valian she was.This movies were the best one.She fascinated me by her red head ,grean eyes and voice as tin bell.

Best Version of the Three Musketeers........2007-03-23

This is the best version of the Three Musketeers. An all-star cast; Alan Hale Jr., Cornel Wilde, and Maureen O'Hara. Well cast, good action, a lively pace, a good story, and charm.

I wish they would make this 1952 version available on DVD. (Also known as "Sons of the Musketeers"). 64 votes so far, at TCM (Turner Classic Movies) shows many other customers asking for this film on DVD too.

I also highly recommend "The Three Musketeers - 1939" with Don Ameche.

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Loved It
Great for Any David Caruso Fan!
An existential Noir!
Recycled Crime Drama
How Come I Never Heard of this Movie????

Black Point [Region 2]
Starring: David Caruso , Susan Haskell , Thomas Ian Griffith , Miguel Sandoval , and Eileen Pedde
Director: David Mackay
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Customer Reviews:

Loved It.......2007-01-13

Perfect! This is a good movie, full of different twists and angles, and just visually good.

Great for Any David Caruso Fan!.......2006-11-12

If you're a fan of David Caruso, then I highly recommend this movie. I think it is one of his best films. The story line is also great for anyone who likes suspense.

An existential Noir!.......2006-04-01

Recycled Crime Drama.......2003-01-25

How Come I Never Heard of this Movie????.......2002-10-26

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