Joe Cortese

Joe Cortese
Total Credits at Criticker: 18 (Actor)
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Against the Ropes
Meg Ryan stars as Jackie Kallen, the most successful female manager in boxing history. A smart, gutsy woman who wants to break out of a dead-end job, Kallen gets her chance when she sees Luther Shaw (Epps) in a brawl and knows he is a champion in the raw. (Paramount Pictures)
American History X
A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family. (New Line Cinema)
Deadly Illusion
A detective is framed for a murder he didn't commit. (imdb)
Nowhere Land
Dean sees mafia boss Santelli whack an FBI infiltrator and is relocated to a remote cabin in the Sierras for protection. While Santelli's crew tries to locate him, Dean gets company from the beautiful Monica. (imdb.com)
Evilspeak
The clumsy military cadet Stanley Coopersmith is orphan and completely outcast in the West Andover Academy. He is frequently abused and humiliated by four despicable mates, and has a bad treatment from his teachers, the coach, the colonel and even from the local reverend. When Coopersmith finds a book of black mass that belonged to the evil medieval Father Esteban, he uses a computer to conjure Satan and revenge his harassers. (imdb)
Something Is Out There
Two police officers investigate a series of brutal murders in which the victims have had bodily organs removed. When one of them questions a young woman who has been seen at the crime scenes, it turns out she is an alien from an interstellar prison ship and that the murders have been committed by a powerful xenomorphic alien which had escaped (imdb)
C.A.T. Squad: Stalking Danger
When terrorists start killing scientists who are working on NATO's laser defense, an elite team, the Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad, are brought in to to stop the killers. (imdb)
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
TV-sequel to the TV-movie "Cat Squad", directed by William Friedkin.
Windows
Shire is the subject of a perverse obsession by a Lesbian neighbor, Ashley, who not only is in lust with her but hires a rapist in order to get audio tapes of her moaning. Ashley turns pepping tom and watches Shire with a telescope as she begins an affair with Det. Cortese. (imdb)
The Death Collector
After being away for a couple of years, Jerry Bolanti is back in his tough, North Jersey neighborhood, close to swampy meadowlands where bodies get pulled from the trunks of cars and dumped. He's short on cash, so a local boss, Anthony Iadavia, throws him some work - as a collector and a holdup man. But Jerry's cocky and a hothead, so he makes enemies faster than he can deliver on the jobs. (imdb)
Born to Run
Grieco participates in underground street racing matches.
The Shipment
A mob enforcer is hired to recover a shipment of Viagra gone awry. (imdb)
Jessi\
A young Mormon couple is attacked by a bunch of outlaws. They kill the man and the woman is raped several times and left for dead in the desert. With the last ounce of her strength she gets to the hut of an old hermit who nurses her back to health and teaches her how to shoot. The woman then frees three female criminals and seeks vengeance on the outlaws... (imdb)
Illicit Dreams
A man and a woman sharing a psychic link meet and fall in love, but the woman's influential and powerful husband stands in their way. (imdb)
To Protect and Serve
In this whodunit, several cops are picked off one-by-one as two young investigators try to make sense of the murders. They soon find that the victims themselves were involved in some violent and less-than-honorable activity. Evidence may lead to fellow cop (C. Thomas Howell) who seems to fit the vigilante profile. (allrovi.com)
Letting Go
Letting Go stars John Ritter as a widower and Sharon Gless as a lonely unmarried woman. They meet during a group-therapy session. Romance is inevitable, but the road to true happiness is pockmarked by a series of comic complications. Advertised as a straight romantic drama, Letting Go is actually more akin to the screwball comedies of the 1930s, with a strong satirical bent regarding "behavior modification" theories. The made-for-TV film debuted May 11, 1985. (allmovie.com)
Green Book
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. (imdb)
The Last Big Save
A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that covers his entire career only to ruin it in his first year due to substance abuse and alcoholism. He rides his good luck in the final month of the final year of his contract when he gets a last chance at redemption in the seventh game of the finals.