Blue Smoke (2007)

Blue Smoke

Often it is something traumatic that leads one into a choice of what you’ll do for the rest of your life. You find yourself frozen in wonder at what is happening and it becomes a raison d’être in your life. For Reena Hale (Alicia Witt) it was the fire that burned down her family’s restaurant when she was 11. After the firemen put it out, she sees John Minger (Scott Bakula), an arson investigator, working the scene, trying to figure out whether the fire was an accident or intentional, and suddenly knows in her soul that this is what she wants to do and be.


Director:  David Carson
Writer:  Ronni Kern; Nora Roberts
Cast:
Alicia Witt -  Reena Hale
Scott Bakula -  John Minger
Matthew Settle -  Bo Goodnight
Talia Shire -  Bianca Hale
Eric Keenleyside -  Gib Hale
John Reardon -  Josh
Ben Ayres -  Hugh
Chris Fassbender -  Joey Pastorelli Jr.
Taylor Dauphinais -  Young Reena
David Brown -  Joe Pastorelli Sr.
Liam Nelson -  Young Joey Pastorelli Jr.
Rod Heatheringston -  Steve
Chad Nobert -  Xander Hale
Peter Skagen -  FBI Agent
Daniela Vlaskalic -  Fran Hale
Karen Johnson-Diamond -  Mrs. Pastorelli









Carolina Moon (2007)

Carolina Moon

Wasn’t it one of the Wolfe boys who said that you can’t go home again? I suppose it is true in an abstract sense since all places and those returning are not the same as time passes. You can go back but you shouldn’t expect things to be the same as when you left. Tory Bodeen (Claire Forlani) is back to stay in her small home town but she’s not expecting much to be different when she left. Via a psychic vision, she knew where to find the body of her best friend Hope who had been murdered, the first of a string that continues every year on the same day. Her father had been the principal suspect when he was paid off to skip town. Folks are not too welcoming when she begins to open up her small shop on main street. But a few are able to move beyond the gossip. Cade Lavelle (Oliver Hudson) is still goofy over her and his sister Faith (Josie Davis) proves to be a fountain of support that Tory (and Faith) finds surprising.


Director:  Stephen Tolkin
Writer:  Stephen Tolkin; Nora Roberts
Cast:
Claire Forlani -  Victoria ‘Tory’ Bodeen
Oliver Hudson -  Cade Lavelle
Josie Davis -  Faith Lavelle
Jonathan Scarfe -  Dwight Collier
Chad Willett -  Wade Mooney
Jacqueline Bisset -  Margaret Lavelle
Shaun Johnston -  Han Bodeen
Greg Lawson -  Police Chief Carl Russ
Maureen Rooney -  Sari Bodeen
Kailin See -  Sherry Bellows
Shae Keebler -  Young Hope Lavelle / Young Faith Lavelle
Gabrielle Casha -  Young Tory Bodeen
Brieanna Moench -  Lissy
Kade Phillips -  Young Cade
Connor Robinson -  Young Wade
Taison Gelinas -  Young Dwight









Angels Fall (2007)

Angels Fall

Memory is a tricky thing. I find as I age, the ability to pluck info is different from what it used to be. I joke that my brian is full and missing details have been overwritten by newer material. I hope that isn’t the case since the newer stuff may not be as profound as what was lost And even then, I don’t know that it has been lost. Maybe it is there but disconnected from its primary link. Odd thoughts tend to surface at the most inappropriate times and I wonder why. Maybe someday I’ll figure it out or someone else will find a solution. But I don’t face the memory problems that Reese Gilmore (Heather Locklear) does. Either the past treatment in a psych ward has scrambled something or a murderer is trying to drive her bonkers. Finding your clothing in the fridge, food in the closet, packed baggage when you awake and day-glo wall scribblings will give you pause that your synapses have misfired rather than think that a killer is toying with you.


Director:  Ralph Hemecker
Writer:  Janet Brownell; Nora Roberts
Cast:
Heather Locklear -  Reese Gilmore
Johnathon Schaech -  Brody
Gary Hudson -  Rick Marsden
Derek Hamilton -  Lo
Linda Darlow -  Joanie
Lisa Marie Caruk -  Linda Gail
Len Crowther -  Doc
Pete Seadon -  Mac Drubber
Chezlene Kocian -  Marlie
Shannon Tuer -  Denna James
Jemma Blackwell -  Debbie Marsden
Christy Greene -  Ginny
Lori Ravensborg -  Jeweler
Aedan Tomney -  Pete
Guillermo Ura -  Sege
Tamara Werden -  Woman in Orange Hat