TV Guide: Jack Mercer

Video: Top Banana (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song

TCM — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Phil Silvers (as un-hinged TV comic Jerry Biffle) with his posse (Herbie Faye, Joey Faye, Jack Albertson, Johnny Coy) performs the Johnny Mercer title tune in the 1954 movie version of Silvers' stage hit Top Banana.

Video: Blues in the Night -- (Movie Clip) Hang On To Your Lids!

TCM — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Travel montage to jazz band in a freight car, Priscilla Lane (as "Character"), Elia Kazan on clarinet, Jack Carson on trumpet, Richard Whorf on guitar, with Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's "Hang On To Your Lids," from Blues in the Night, 1941.

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

After their adoptive mother is murdered during a grocery store holdup, the Mercer brothers - hotheaded Bobby (Mark Wahlberg), hard-edged Angel (Tyrese Gibson), family man and businessman Jeremiah (Andre Benjamin), and hard rocking Jack (Garrett Hedlund) - reunite to take the matter of her death into their own hands. As they track down the killer, they quickly realize that their old ways of doing business have new consequences. In this character-driven action-drama from acclaimed director John Singleton and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, four brothers come together to discover that they are bound by ties thicker than blood.

Video: Trailer A

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is a wealthy New York businessman who has had a habit of dating women under 30 for 40 years. When he and his latest conquest, Marin Barry (Amanda Peet), drive to her mother's Hamptons beach house on the coast, his life turns upside down. Expecting to be alone, Harry and Marin are surprised by Marin's mother, successful playwright Erica Barry (Diane Keaton), and her sister Zoe (Frances McDormand). After an awkward dinner, the night turns disastrous when during foreplay with Marin Harry has a heart attack and is rushed to hospital. The handsome young doctor, Julian Mercer (Keanu Reeves), tells Harry to stay in the area for a few days, and so Harry ends up staying with Erica. Their differing personalities initially make for awkward living arrangements, until the two begin to get to know each other.