Movies by Dick Lowry
As a director:
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Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
Cast: Gina Gershon, Randy Quaid, Shannen Doherty …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
In this gripping follow-up to the made-for-television movie Category 6: Day of Destruction, Gina Gershon stars as beleaguered FEMA director Judith Carr, whose worst nightmares play out when…
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Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
Cast: Nancy McKeon, Randy Quaid, Thomas Gibson …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
In this miniseries, meteorologist Andy Goodman (Brian Dennehy) begins tracking a trio of nasty storms brewing in the United States. Meanwhile, Chicago is battling a record heat wave, but…
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Little John (2002)
Cast: Gloria Reuben, Ving Rhames, Robert Bailey Jr. …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
As a family court judge, Natalie Britain makes decisions that affect hundreds of families. But when her father tries to reunite her with her own child, whom she had given up for adoption…
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Attila (2001)
Cast: Gerard Butler, Powers Boothe, Simmone Mackinnon …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
The king of the Huns united warring tribes in an attempt to create one of history's largest empires. Despite success as a brave warrior and ruthless leader, Attila (Gerard Butler)…
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Follow the Stars Home (2001)
Cast: Kimberly Williams, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Eric Close …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
Produced for television's "Hallmark Hall of Fame" series, this story follows Dianne (Kimberly Williams) in her new marriage to young, successful Mark (Eric Close). A pregnancy follows,…
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The Diamond of Jeru (2001)
Cast: Billy Zane, Keith Carradine, Paris Jefferson …
Directed by: Ian Barry, Dick Lowry
An American couple bored with their marriage travels to the wilds of Borneo in search of diamonds and adventure. A story of passion, adventure and betrayal, Louis L'Amour's The…
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Atomic Train (1999)
Cast: Rob Lowe, Kristen Davis, Esai Morales …
Directed by: David A. Jackson, Dick Lowry
To cut costs, a waste disposal company decides to transport a nuclear warhead and tons of radioactive waste on an aging train. When the engine's brakes fail, National Transportation…
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Mr. Murder (1998)
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, James Coburn, Julie Warner …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
A botched cloning causes mystery novelist Marty Stillwater (Stephen Baldwin) to become his evil twin in this made-for-TV miniseries based on Dean Koontz's bestseller. A rogue…
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Last Stand at Saber River (1997)
Cast: Tom Selleck, Suzy Amis, Rachel Duncan …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
Adapted from Elmore Leonard's novel, this made-for-TV Western centers on Confederate soldier Paul Cable (Tom Selleck), who returns to his Arizona property at the war's end only to…
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A Nightmare Come True / Two Came Back (1997)
Cast: Shelley Fabares, Melissa Joan Hart, Gerald McRaney …
Directed by: Dick Lowry, Christopher Leitch
Survival is the name of the game in this made-for-TV twin bill. When her abusive father (Gerald McRaney) insists that his wife ran off, the prescient dreams of suspicious Sarah Zarn (Katy…
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Project: ALF (1996)
Cast: Miguel Ferrer, William O'Leary, Jensen Daggett …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
Before the NBC sitcom "ALF" went off the air in 1990, its creators filmed an episode meant as the finale for that season that had the ornery alien being abducted by the Alien Task Force and…
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A Horse for Danny (1995)
Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Robert Urich, Ron Brice …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
An 11-year-old girl and her uncle fall hook, line and sinker for a beauty of a thoroughbred in this heartwarming family tale. With no parents to rely on, Danielle "Danny" Fortuna (Leelee…
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Urban Crossfire (1992)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Ray Sharkey, Peter Boyle …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the dead cop's partner, who is also the…
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A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story (1992)
Cast: Meredith Baxter, Stephen Collins, Michelle Johnson …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
In this tense made-for-television drama, "Family Ties" mom Meredith Baxter plays stone-cold murderess Betty Broderick, who cooked up a brutal killing to get back at her wealthy ex-husband…
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In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders (1988)
Cast: Ronny Cox, Bruce Greenwood, Michael Gross …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
In a tale taken straight from the FBI's files, a pair of bank robbers (small-screen veterans David Soul and Michael Gross) goes on a crime and killing spree, turning a tranquil Florida…
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Agatha Christie Classic Mystery Collection: Murder with Mirrors (1985)
Cast: Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, John Mills …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
Helen Hayes returns for her second stint as spinster sleuth Miss Jane Marple, who's called to the sprawling country estate of her longtime friend Carrie Louise Serrocold (Bette Davis)…
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Wet Gold (1984)
Cast: Brooke Shields, Burgess Meredith, Thomas Byrd …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
After aging beach bum Sampson (Burgess Meredith) tells waitress Laura (Brooke Shields) about a fortune in treasure he claims is buried in a sunken ship, she ropes her skeptical boyfriend,…
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Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983)
Cast: Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Paul Williams …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
The Enos duo convince Cletus, aka The Bandit, to come out of hiding. With coaxing, he agrees, producing an almost-creaky Trigger as his mode of transport. But his nemesis, Sheriff Justice, is…
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Kenny Rogers: Coward of the County (1981)
Cast: Largo Woodruff, Kenny Rogers, Fredric Lehne …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
As a boy, Tommy (Fredric Lehne) swore to his dying father he would never fight, a promise he kept, even refusing to join the military during World War II. But when Tommy's fiancée…
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The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980)
Cast: Loni Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Raymond Buktenica …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
Loni Anderson portrays 1950s blond bombshell Jayne Mansfield in this engaging biopic that costars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jayne's bodybuilding husband, Mickey Hargitay. Anderson…
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The Gambler (1980)
Cast: Kenny Rogers, Christine Belford, Bruce Boxleitner …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
In this high-stakes buddy flick inspired by a hit song of the same name, country music legend Kenny Rogers stars as seasoned frontier gambler Brady Hawkes, who travels to faraway Yuma,…