Becoming Iconic: Jonathan Baker

Jonathan Baker & Neal Thibedeau

Becoming Iconic explores the perilous journey of first time filmmaker Jonathan Baker, as he navigates the industry with help from veterans Jodie Foster, Adrian Lyne, John Badham and Taylor Hackford. The documentary examines the process of filmmaking from the ground up through the eyes of top directors as they tell their stories and share their wisdom.


The Jack Bull

John Badham

After an evil cattle baron wrongs him and the legal system fails to set things right, a horse trader takes the law into his own hands and launches an obsessive quest for justice. John Cusack stars as Myrl Redding, with John Goodman, L.Q. Jones, Miranda Otto, John C. McGinley, John Savage, Jay O. Sanders and Scott Wilson. Directed by John Badham; written by Dick Cusack, inspired by the book entitled 'Michael Kohlhass' by Heinrick von Kleist.


Short Circuit

John Badham

An experimental military robot escapes after being struck by lightning and given human intelligence. He finds a home with madcap Stephanie Speck who believes he's an alien. Hot on their trail are scientists Newton Crosby and his assistant who must get to their creation before the army does, since its plan is to put Number 5 out of service permanently.


Footsteps (2003)

John Badham

Daisy Lowendahl (Bergen) is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan (Hall) who knows almost everything about her, and two men - one of whom may be trying to kill her, the other of whom could save her life, causing Daisy to be thrown into the middle of a real-life drama.


Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman

Fabien Martorell

A portrait of legendary American filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman, president of Troma Entertainement, an independent New York-based production house that has specialized in Z-films for over 35 years, and creator of the Toxic Avenger.


Stakeout (1987)

John Badham

Convinced that a dangerous escaped convict (Aidan Quinn) is headed for his ex-girlfriend's (Madeleine Stowe), a pair of Seattle detectives (Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez) stake out her apartment. The watch remains routine until one of the detectives begins a high-risk romance with the woman under surveillance — jeopardizing not only the partners' careers...but also their lives!


Whose Life Is It Anyway?

John Badham

Oscar-winner Richard Dreyfuss ("Mr. Holland's Opus," "Stakeout") stars as a sculptor who becomes paralyzed after an auto accident and fights the hospital administration for the right to die. Starring Oscar-nominee, John Cassavetes ("Rosemary's Baby," "The Dirty Dozen") and Golden Globe, Oscar and Emmy-winner Christine Lahti (TV's "Chicago Hope," "The Executioner's Song"). Provocative black comedy based on Reginald Rose's successful Broadway play. Directed by John Badham ("Drop Zone," "Nick of Time," "Saturday Night Fever").


The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings

John Badham

In the world of 1930s Negro League baseball, a spirited team of renegade players travels around the Midwest looking for that one big score. Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones star as three barnstorming ballplayers who take on prejudice and their own League's unfair rules while stealing cars, food and home base - anything to prove that they're the best team around. It's a showdown of brains over booby traps and sportsmanship over racial segregation as Bingo Long's All-Stars swing their way to a winning season.


Another Stakeout

John Badham

Riotous comic adventure about two hard-charging Seattle detectives who are forced to go under-cover with an inexperienced female District Attorney. It's an outrageous battle of wills when the unlikely trio must pose as one-big-happy-family while they infiltrate an upscale resort to stake out a missing witness in the case against a Las Vegas mob boss.


Brother's Keeper

John Badham

Throughout her life, Lucinda Pond has looked after and protected her younger brother Ellis, whose aberrant mental state was the result of constant abuse at the hands of his father. As an adult, Lucinda worked as a criminal investigator, while Ellis pursued a criminal career. Despite this, Lucinda continued to shelter her brother, carefully covering up for his many crimes. Fired for bungling the investigation of alleged serial killer Victor Orbin, Lucinda opens up a boat and tackle store at a remote lakeside community. Local homicide detective Travis Adler invites Lucinda to participate in another murder investigation, this one apparently perpetrated by the same killer who indirectly cost Lucinda her badge. At the same time, Ellis escapes from jail and goes off on a homicidal spree of his own, eliminating those whom he feels did his sister wrong, as well as a few abusive parents along the way. Gradually, Lucinda begins to deduce a connection between Ellis escape and her current investigation but will she continue to protect her kid brother despite his murderous rampage? Starring Jeanne Tripplehorn (Basic Instinct, The Firm), Emmy Award-nominee Corin Nemec (TV's I Know My First Name Is Steven, TV's Parker Lewis), Brian Jensen (The 6th Day, The 13th Warrior) and Leland Orser (Daredevil, Pearl Harbor).


Point of No Return

John Badham

"Bridget Fonda is pure dynamite" (WWOR-TV) as a murderous misfit reprogrammed as a high-tech assassin. Gabriel Byrne and Anne Bancroft co-star in "one of the top thrillers of the year" (ABC Radio Network).


American Flyers

John Badham

American Flyers takes you on the road for exciting world-class cycling competition as two brothers struggle to win a race and to regain the respect and affection they once shared. Achievement-oriented Marcus (Kevin Costner) is a nationally-ranked cyclist. Younger brother David (David Grant) is a drifter, content to cruise through life on a 10- speed. Time-and the painful events surrounding their father's death- have turned the siblings' differences into an open rift. So they try to bridge the gap by competing together in the Hell of the West, a grueling race through the Rocky Mountains. For the first time ever, the brothers train and race side-by-side...while each privately confronts a nagging fear: the congenital ailment that struck down their father could just suddenly strike one of them. Writer Steve Tesich, and Academy Award winner for his bike-racing opus Breaking Away, now captures the sport's excitement on an even larger scale.


Blue Thunder

John Badham

Roy Scheider stars in this intense action thriller as a courageous police officer pilot battling government fanatics planning to misuse an experimental attack helicopter. Chosen to test Blue Thunder, Frank Murphy (Scheider) is amazed by the high-speed, high-tech chopper. It can see through walls, record a whisper or level a city block. Distrusting the military mentality behind Blue Thunder, Murphy and his partner Lymangood (Daniel Stern) soon discover that the remarkable craft is slated for useas the ultimate weapon in surveillance and crowd control. Jeopardized after being discovered by sinister Colonel Cochrane (Malcolm McDowell), Murphy flies Blue Thunder against military aircraft in a spellbinding contest over Los Angeles.


WarGames

John Badham

A teenager, bored by traditional high school subjects like biology but fascinated by computers, accidentally taps into the Pentagon's top-secret computer...the USA's NORAD system. He starts what he innocently believes is a computer game called "Global Thermonuclear War," but the "game" is real. The Pentagon's best minds cannot shut down or reprogram the supercomputer that is readying a missile attack against the USSR, and thereby unleash Armageddon. The teen and his girlfriend attempt to aid the helpless Pentagon and, in a frantic race against a ticking "doomsday clock," try to persuade the computer to end the "game."


Drop Zone

John Badham

Wesley Snipes freefalls into the daredevil world of sky-diving in this high-octane thriller that takes crime-fighting to new heights. U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip (Snipes) finds his career in hot water when the prisoner he’s transporting parachutes out of a 747 and disappears safely into the night with his deadly cohorts in two. While Nessip does his best to stop the bold escape, he can’t stop the force from suspending him. But even this isn’t enough to keep him out of action. Instead he does what he must to track down the cadre of techno terrorists – even if it means sky-diving from 30,000 feet in the air. Co-starring Gary Busey, Yancy Butler and Michael Jeter, Drop Zone is a rush that will keep your adrenaline pumping from beginning to end.