9 Movies Starring Ricky Schroder

The Champ

The Champ

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-04-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

121 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (5783 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaSport

Cast:

Writer:

Frances Marion (story)

Walter Newman

Fullplot:

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven years ago. T.J. worships The Champ who is now working on his come-back in order to give his boy a better future. But suddenly Annie shows up again ...

The Earthling

The Earthling

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-07-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

Australia, USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (955 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Collinson

Fullplot:

Patrick Foley has been on the move all his life. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in an accident in this remote inhospitable territory. Being unable to accompany the boy back to the civilized world he reluctantly takes him with him on his trip to that valley and teaches him in a rugged way how to survive ...

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-06-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (761 Reviews)

Director:

Charles Jarrott

Cast:

Writer:

Ernest K. Gann (story)

Steven W. Carabatsos (screenplay)

Sandy Glass (screenplay)

George Arthur Bloom (screenplay)

Fullplot:

When Noah Dugan agrees to fly missionary Bernadette Lafleur and her cargo of animals to a remote island, its only because he is on the run from a couple of bookies. What neither of them know is that two of Miss Lafleur's young students have stowed away with the animals & Miss Lafleur's transistor radio has interfered with the plane's instruments and they're all now miles off course. After a forced landing on a remote island, Dugan, Bernadette, Bobby and Julie discover that they are not alone. Together with two Japanese soldiers who have been stranded on the island since WWII, they must turn the plane into a seaworthy boat if they are ever to make it home. When Bobby and Julie insist that they cannot leave the animals behind, the converted plane truly becomes a second Noah's Ark

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-11-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (2408 Reviews)

Director:

Jack Gold

Cast:

Writer:

Frances Hodgson Burnett (novel)

Blanche Hanalis (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Ceddie, Earl of Dorincourt's only grandson and heir lives in America with his mother. The Earl, getting old, asks them to come to England. Ceddie, now Lord Fauntleroy, is an adorable little fellow. The Earl, who at first was rather distant, becomes more en more fond of him. Then Minna shows up. She claims she was married to the Earl's eldest son and that her son, being their child, is the Earl's true heir...

Return to Lonesome Dove

Return to Lonesome Dove

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-11-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

322 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1429 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaWestern

Fullplot:

'Captain' Call has just buried Gus at Lonesome Dove and plans to head back to his ranch in Montana. Looking at a herd of wild Mustangs, he decides to drive them north with the help of Isom and Gideon Walker. Gideon hires Agostina Vega and Mexican Cowboys to run the Mustangs. Call leaves the drive for Nebraska and runs into Cherokee Jack and a group of Indians, which almost costs him his life. In Montana, Newt and Jasper get into a shoot out in the local bar and wind up in jail. The odds of them surviving the lynch mob are slim until Dunnegan has them freed. Newt had rescued his wife, Ferris, from a band of cattle rustlers and Dunnegan was thankful. However, Newt and Jasper will have to work for Dunnegan to keep their freedom. Newt has mixed emotions about working for Dunnegan who helps him in any way, because he also has respect for Call - who may or may not be his true father. Dunnegan has big plans for his cattle and the future. Those plans do not include those who do not throw in with him and the Hat Creek Cattle Company is not interested in Dunnegan.

There Goes My Baby

There Goes My Baby

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-09-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (840 Reviews)

Director:

Floyd Mutrux

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

In the summer of 1965, strict high-school Westwood's senior class in its privileged white suburb of L.A. graduates. Their relief to get out of the oppressive model of 'good American' behavior none actually adopted is soon spoiled. Surfer boy George Jr. 'Stick' is enlisting as volunteer for Vietnam, which is portrayed as a 'police action', panics on his last evening. Academic weakling Pirate, who intended to dodge a draft as drifter, suddenly faces the pregnancy of his lifelong true love Sunny. A spoiled 'princess' (also narrator) bitches because her parents want her to attend UCLA, not 'revolutionary' Berkeley. Calvin, the only black mate, lives in the poor quarter Watts, where the majority of his race plunders and attacks everyone, including class poet Michael Finnegan, whose family treated Calvin as an adopted son. Finnegan decides to symbolically deal with the hated school principal's patriotic pride, the Soldier statue...

Poolhall Junkies

Poolhall Junkies

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-02-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(8298 Reviews)

Director:

Mars Callahan

Fullplot:

Obsessed by the world of pool, Johnny (Mars Callahan) could be one of the best. But his mentor and "trainer" Joe (Chazz Palminteri), a shady hustler who decides how and who Johnny plays, is holding him back from his dream. When the day finally comes, Johnny breaks from Joe, which leads to only one thing -- violence. Joe is beaten up by some of Johnny's buddies as a sign to leave him alone, and with this final act of freedom, Johnny leaves the world of pool-sharking. After an ultimatum from his girlfriend Tara ('Alison Eastwood'), Johnny finally commits to a "real" job in the construction business, but is soon miserable there. He finds himself spending most of his time with his younger brother Danny (Michael Rosenbaum) who it seems is following in his footsteps on the road to a life Johnny left when he broke from Joe. As for Joe, he is bent on revenge for the beating he took, and soon he has a new protègè Brad (Rick Schroder) who is just as good if not better then Johnny. And he's got his eye on Johnny's brother. The two play a high-stakes game of pool which ends in a huge debt owed to Joe, and soon Johnny finds that his brother is in jail for trying to steal the money he owes. The only way out for Johnny is to play Brad, which results in a "race to nine" showdown that pits two of the greatest players against each other for large sums of money, and Johnny and Danny's lives.

The Lost Battalion

The Lost Battalion

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-12-02

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA, Luxembourg

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

TV-14

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (4911 Reviews)

Director:

Russell Mulcahy

Fullplot:

In 1918 in World War I, in the Meuse-Argonne Sector in France, the former New York lawyer and Major Charles White Whittlesey is assigned by Gen. Robert Alexander to a massive suicidal attack against the German forces in the Argonne Forest with his five-hundred-man battalion. However, the forces supposed to be giving support through the flanks retreat and the communications with the headquarter of the 77th American Division are cut. Major Wittlesey holds his position with his men, mostly Irish, Polish, Italian and Jewish immigrants from New York, surrounded by the German army. Without food, water, ammunition and medical supplies, only two hundred men survive after five days of siege.

The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-05-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

180 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (12049 Reviews)

Fullplot:

In "The Andromeda Strain," a U.S. military satellite crashes in a small town and unleashes a deadly plague killing all but two survivors. As the military quarantines the area, a team of highly specialized scientists is assembled to find a cure to the pathogen code-named "Andromeda," and a reporter investigates a government conspiracy only to discover what he is chasing wants him silenced.

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