The best J.J. Johnston’s movies

J.J. Johnston

J.J. Johnston

24/10/1933 (90 años)
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Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction
6.9/10
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

JFK

JFK
8/10
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

K-911

K-911
5.6/10
Dooley and his dog Jerry Lee still are active as a police team with the LAPD. However, years starting and counting Captain Roger Byers thinks they urgently need to do something with their condition. He even forces them to work with a second team: the one of the young Sergeant Welles and her disciplined Dobermann Zeus. Dooley and Jerry Lee thinks they can work without their new partners but a mysterious sharp-shooter forces them to the ultimate cooperation

Redbelt

Redbelt
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/04/2008
Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes Mike's car and then, after an odd sequence of events, shoots out the studio's window. Later that evening, Mike rescues an action movie star in a fistfight at a bar. In return, the actor befriends Mike, gives him a gift, offers him work on his newest film, and introduces Mike's wife to his own - the women initiate business dealings. Then, things go sour all at once, Mike's debts mount, and going into the ring may be his only option.

976-EVIL

976-EVIL
5.1/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 09/12/1988
  • Character: Virgil
People who dial 976-EVIL receive supernatural powers and turn into satanic killers. When Spike dialed 976-EVIL, he knew it was an expensive toll call, but he didn't know that he'd have to pay for it with his soul.

Spartan

Spartan
6.5/10
U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.

An Innocent Man

An Innocent Man
6.5/10
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.

State and Main

State and Main
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/08/2000
  • Character: Stationmaster
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.

The Spanish Prisoner

The Spanish Prisoner
7.2/10
An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation he works for turn against him.

Beware! The Blob

Beware! The Blob
4.1/10
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace-- the local hippies, cops, drunks and bowlers must all face the Blob!

Queens Logic

Queens Logic
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/02/1991
  • Character: Joey Clams
When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through reality. During one tumultuous, crazy weekend, they face adulthood and each other with new found maturity and discover what Queens Logic is all about. This comedy takes a look at friendship, loyalty, and love.

Homicide

Homicide
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/05/1991
  • Character: Jilly Curran
A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.

Things Change

Things Change
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 21/10/1988
  • Character: Frankie
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Whose Life Is It Anyway?
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/12/1981
  • Character: Guard
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.

Lakeboat

Lakeboat
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 13/04/2000
  • Character: Stan
Coming-of-age tale set aboard a shipping freighter traveling America's Great Lakes. Dale is an Ivy League college student who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle which falls short of his literary visions, Dale instead finds the experience rich in unexpected ways. The men's bravado and comical posturing gives way as their lively story-telling reveals more about their mythologized view of life than about what actually may have happened.

Above Suspicion

Above Suspicion
6.7/10
Dempsey Cain is an honored cop, a loving husband and father, and mentor to his handsome younger brother. Then a drug dealer's bullet paralyzes him for life and Dempsey's world is shattered. Suddenly, his wife and brother seem to care less about him than for each other, and a million-dollar insurance.

Body Shot

Body Shot
4.6/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 09/03/1994
  • Character: Magruder
Paparazzi photographer Mickey Dane is obsessed with elusive pop singer Chelsea, and his attempts to capture her on film often land him in trouble.

The Prime Gig

The Prime Gig
6/10
Pendelton "Penny" Wise is a smooth-talking con-artist who makes a living by scamming people with phoney travel comp vacations over the phone when, desperate for more fast cash, he's called to work for a shady, veteran con businessman, named Kelly Grant, in selling property for a gold mine over the phone, which takes a turn when Penny begins a relationship with Grant's mistress Caitlin, where Penny throws common sense and caution to the wind to woo her, while we wonder who is scamming who here. Written by Matthew Patay

Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn
5.3/10
Peter Gunn, a connoisseur of beautiful women and cool jazz, is an ex-cop turned private eye who's caught in the middle of a dangerous gang war.

Towing

Towing
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/05/1978
  • Character: Butch
An unscrupulous towing company picks up perfectly fine cars and impounds them. It's up to two bar maids to try and stop them.

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