Helen Shaver

Helen Shaver
Date of Birth: 24 Feb 1951
Country: Canada
Total Credits at Criticker: 37 (Actor), 13 (Director)
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The Craft
A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them. (imdb)
The Believers
A New York psychiatrist finds that a voodoo cult, which believes in child sacrifice, has a keen interest in his own son. (imdb)
The Land Before Time
Four orphan dinosaurs travel the ruins of their world, while grieving the loss of their families and banding together to face the odds of survival. (imdb)
The Color of Money
A former pool player returns to the game and takes on a young protege. (imdb)
The Osterman Weekend
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel (imdb)
The Amityville Horror
Newlyweds move into a house where a murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away. (imdb)
Tremors II: Aftershocks
Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996) - Direct-to-Video
Our underground monster-killing heroes from the original Tremors have split up. Soured that everyone else profited from Graboids-mania, Fred Ward "re-enlists" to battle a new breed of Mexican Graboids. (imdb)
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear
T.V. movie based on the sniper attacks. (Wikipedia.org)
Gas
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the course of her investigation, other people become involved, culminating in a multiple car chase. (imdb)
Numb
A chronically depressed screenwriter desperately tries to cure his condition when he meets the girl of his dreams.
Desert Hearts
While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.
High-Ballin\
Two truck drivers fight off thugs who have been hired to drive them out of business. (imdb)
Best Defense
Wylie is a lazy engineer. Landry is a Sergeant specializing in Armour. They have never met but their lives become entangled when Landry must take the tank Wylie designed into combat. Wylie is waiting for his employer to go out of business when he meets another engineer who gives him a disk with the plans for a system that will save his employer. The other engineer is dead moments later leaving Wylie with the disk and credit for the design. Suddenly Wylie is no longer a hack... (John Vogel)
Starship Invasions
An advance team from a dying, far-off civilization seeks a new world to conquer and inhabit -- Earth! (imdb)
Zebrahead
This is a Romeo and Juliet type tale based in Detroit, Michigan. Two young men, Zack, a white teen accused of "acting black" and Dee, an African American teen, defy racial lines and form a strong friendship. When Zack begins dating Dee's cousin Nikki, his white friends presume he's seeing her because of sexual stereotypes about black women, while her black friends can't believe her interest in him. (imdb)
The Keeper
When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues. (imdb)
Bear with Me
The further adventures of Masha, a bear cub in the Canadian wilderness. Emily, a "cub" reporter for her school newspaper, gets into danger investigating illegal logging in the woods, which reunites her with Masha. (film.com)
Born to Be Wild
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country. (imdb)
In Praise of Older Women
Callow young Andras Vayda (Tom Berenger) is growing up fast in post-World War II Hungary. But he's a sexual anomaly -- at ease with mature ladies yet ill suited to girls his age. Before long, Andras becomes the boy-toy of a succession of older women (including Karen Black, Helen Shaver and Susan Strasberg) in the heady revolutionary days of Hungary's uprising against the communists.
Outrageous!
A story about a female impersonator who rooms with a pregnant schizophrenic.
Pair of Aces
Pair of Aces (1990) - TV Movie
A Texas Ranger has to protect his two daughters as he investigates a serial killer who is attacking cheerleaders. Meanwhile he finds himself working with a safe cracker who claims to be innocent of the charges filed against him. (imdb)
The Park Is Mine
A vietnam vet takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War. (imdb)
That Night
In 1961 Long Island Alice is just that bit younger than her playmates. She doesn't quite understand yet about some grownup things and is teased a lot. Her heroine is anyway Sheryl, the teenager over the road who has a succession of boyfriends. Alice even copies her perfume and favorite records, though she has never spoken to her. (imdb)
Bethune: The Making of a Hero
Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune, 1890-1939, (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. (imdb)
Countdown to Looking Glass
Docudrama uses fictional reports of a crisis in the Middle East, which leads to a nuclear confrontation between the US and the USSR. "Looking Glass" is the code word for the Strategic Air Command's control plane which is to be used in the case of nuclear war. (imdb)
Harry Tracy: The Last of the Wild Bunch
By the year 1900, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, John Wesley Hardin, and virtually all of the West's legendary outlaws are either dead or in jail pending execution-all of them, that is, except train robber and escape artist extraordinaire, Harry Tracy. As the last survivor of the Wild Bunch, Tracy pulls off a series of profitable robberies before making his way west to Portland, Oregon, in search of Catherine Tuttle, a judge's daughter who has captured his heart. (imdb)
Columbo
Down River
Down River is the emotionally stirring story of three young women teetering on the edge between creative breakthroughs and personal breakdowns, and their connection with the older woman they rely on for guidance, support and inspiration. (downrivermovie.com)
Poisoned by Love: The Kern County Murders
Steve Catlin was known as a real lady-killer. But it's his new bride's mysterious death that causes his former wife, Edie Ballew, to question how accurate that nickname really is. With little more than a hunch and the help of an out-of-town detective, Edie secretly pieces together clues that reveal her cunning and smooth-talking ex-husband as a cold, methodical killer.
Morning Glory
When recently widowed Elly Dinsmore hires ex-con Will Parker to help out on her farm, the situation proves healing for both. But just as they're settling into a new rhythm of life, Will falls under suspicion for murder. (Netflix)
Common Ground
Three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's and discovers lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts", a teacher in a 1970's classroom struggles with his closeted gay status. Finally in "Amos and Andy", a father wrestles with his own emotional acceptance of a present day wedding between his son and another man.
Birthday Cake
Feature length sequel to the multi award-winning short film GROOM'S CAKE. A mockumentary following the three days leading up to the first birthday party of a child with two gay parents: television actor Steven James and his screenwriter husband, Daniel Ferguson. A movie about the family we are born into and the family we create. (imdb)
Poltergeist: The Legacy
"The Legacy" is a secret society that began many centuries ago to accumulate knowledge and artifacts to help fight against the evil in the world. This particular Legacy team is set in San Francisco in a castle-like house on Angel Island. Dr. Derek Rayne heads up the team comprised of psychiatrist, Rachel Corrigan; priest, Philip C.; ex-Navy SEAL, Nick Boyle; and researcher/psychic Alex Moreau. (imdb)
Rowing Through
This is the world of Tiff Wood, the top international sculler. A Harvard grad who trains under the legendary Harry Parker, Tiff is the odds on favorite to capture the gold medal in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Falling for You
A serial killer attacks a commercial artist which leaves her with amnesia and then becomes her neighbor. (imdb)
The Education of Max Bickford
A history professor teaches at a women's college where his daughter is a student. (imdb)