6 Movies Directed by Ron Underwood

Tremors

Tremors

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1990-01-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (81748 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Underwood

Cast:

Writer:

S.S. Wilson (story)

Brent Maddock (story)

Ron Underwood (story)

S.S. Wilson (screenplay)

Brent Maddock (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A small town gradually becomes aware of a strange creature which picks off people one by one. But what is this creature, and where is it? At the same time, a seismologist is working in the area, she detects _tremors_. The creature lives underground, and can 'pop up' without warning. Trapped in their town, the town-folk have no escape.

City Slickers

City Slickers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-06-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (37101 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Underwood

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Lowell Ganz

Babaloo Mandel

Fullplot:

Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. There they meet cowboy Curly who not only teaches them how to become real cowboys, but also one or two other things about life in the open air of the west.

Heart and Souls

Heart and Souls

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-08-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (12298 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Underwood

Cast:

Writer:

Gregory Hansen (short film)

Gregory Hansen (screen story)

Erik Hansen (screen story)

Brent Maddock (screen story)

S.S. Wilson (screen story)

Brent Maddock (screenplay)

S.S. Wilson (screenplay)

Gregory Hansen (screenplay)

Erik Hansen (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In 1959, in San Francisco, the telephone operator Penny Washington leaves her three children to work in her night shift. The shy singer Harrison Winslow is afraid of the stage and quits his audition. The waitress Julia is proposed by her boyfriend and she does not accept; then she regrets and leaves her job to seek him out. The smalltime thief Milo Peck tries to retrieve a collection of stamps that he had stolen from a boy. They embark in a bus and the driver Hal distracts while driving and has a serious accident, and driver and passengers die. Meanwhile, Frank Reilly is driving his pregnant wife Eva Reilly to the hospital. Frank successfully escapes from the bus but Eva is nervous and delivers her baby in the car. The souls of the four passengers become the guardian angels and the invisible friends of the boy Thomas Reilly. Seven years later, Penny, Julia, Harrison and Milo conclude that they are harming the boy and they decide to become invisible also to him. Thirty and something years later, Hal returns with his bus to take them four and the quartet learns that they had all those years to resolve the issues of their lives. They ask Hal to stall and give some more time for them to resolve their unfinished lives and they decide to come back to Thomas, who is now a tough businessman and indecisive in his relationship with girlfriend Anne, and ask him to help them to resolve their issues and become free souls. In the end, Thomas also becomes a better man.

Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-12-25

Languages:

English, Swahili

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (21610 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Underwood

Cast:

Writer:

Merian C. Cooper (story)

Ruth Rose (earlier screenplay)

Mark Rosenthal (screenplay)

Lawrence Konner (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The baby gorilla left in her care grows up to become a hugely tall and broad specimen by the name of Joe, living in the mountains as a mostly unseen legend among people who live there. Along comes an eco-minded emissary from a California sanctuary, who talks the jungle girl into providing safe haven for Joe at the L.A. facility. The transition is not without discomfort, but everything is aggravated via a conspiracy of poachers to get Joe into their own greedy hands!

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-08-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Australia

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

3.7 (19360 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Underwood

Fullplot:

After his successful night club is blown to flaming bits, Pluto and his band travel across the moon looking for clues as to who is behind the arson. Along with Bruno and Dina, Pluto visits a seedy motel, his secret hide out and the casino of the most powerful man on the moon searching for the evil doer, only to find out that the destruction of his club may have been his own fault

Deck the Halls

Deck the Halls

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-12-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Canada

IMDB Ratings:

(139 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Underwood

Cast:

Writer:

Howard Burkons (screenplay)

Carol Higgins Clark (book)

Mary Higgins Clark (book)

Fullplot:

Detective Regan Reilly and cleaning-woman-turned-private-eye Alvirah Meehan, investigate the kidnapping of Regan's father and a young female driver just before the holidays. The race is on to rescue the pair and get them home in time for Christmas.

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