TV Guide: Peter Weller

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Video: Rome: Engineering An Empire

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:29:06 +0000

If asked to define the glory of ancient Rome, many students of history will invariably cite its formidable military troops and allegiances, but the sharper observer will realize that the empire's prowess lay in its city design, architecture and engineering, from its aqueducts to its majestic Colosseum - elements that placed the civilization centuries ahead of its time. Taking this as its central axiom, the History Channel special Engineering an Empire: Rome undertakes a documentary-style foray into ancient Roman buildings and city planning, via a combination of on-location footage and CGI illustrations; actor Peter Weller (Firstborn) hosts, telling the story of the Roman Empire from a structural standpoint, from Julius Caesar's ascension in 55 B.C. to the Empire's fall in 537 A.D. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide.

Video: Top Of The World

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:46:07 +0000

In this high-tension drama, Ray Mercer (Peter Weller) is a former cop who was kicked off the force and sent to prison after it was discovered that he embezzled $4,000 from the police officers' pension fund. Shortly after he's released on parole, Ray and his wife Rebecca (Tia Carrere) decide to get a divorce and head to Las Vegas where they can get it over with quickly. Rebecca wants to visit a casino, but Ray's conditions of parole forbid it; while he waits for her outside as she gambles, he hands a few bucks to a casino hostess and asks her to play a slot machine for him. Ray thinks good luck is finally with him when the machine pays off a $450,000 jackpot, but that's just before a group of ambitious thieves circle the casino to pull a massive robbery. The local police are convinced that Ray is somehow in on the crime; he jumps in to help in hopes of clearing his name, and he discovers evidence that suggests that the owner of the casino, Charles Atlas (Dennis Hopper), may have engineered the robbery on his o

Video: Tunnel, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:45:36 +0000

The obsession of a man for a married woman leads to tragedy in this romantic melodrama. Juan Pablo Castel (Peter Weller) is an artist who sees a woman admiring one of his paintings at an art exhibit. When he goes to introduce himself, she quickly disappears. Castel follows her through the streets of the city and loses her twice before his successful meeting. He becomes obsessed with the beautiful Maria (Jane Seymour), who Castel learns is married to an older intellectual. Castel is not able to put the woman out of his mind, and his obsession proves fatal as the story unfolds in flashbacks. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide.

Video: First Born

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:17:14 +0000

A teenager and his kid brother spar with their mother's shady new boyfriend in this dramatic thriller from veteran British director Michael Apted. When her ex-husband remarries, Wendy (Teri Garr) feels despondent -- until she starts dating handsome, unctuous Sam (Peter Weller), an underemployed salesman with no shortage of big ideas. Excited to finally feel good about herself again, Wendy invites Sam to move in and offers to invest in his get-rich-quick schemes. None of this sits well with her sons, Jake (Christopher Collet) and Brian (Corey Haim), who remain unimpressed with Sam even after he convinces Wendy to buy Jake a motorbike. They're even less jazzed when Sam stops currying favor and turns disciplinarian even while pulling Wendy into his hard-partying lifestyle. Within a few months, Brian's on the verge of expulsion for picking fights at school, and even honor-role student Jake is mouthing off to his teachers. As for Wendy, she's too busy taking beatings and doing cocaine to notice that her family has

Photo: Egypt: Engineering an Empire - Host Peter Weller inside the sun temple dedicated to Ramses the Great.

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Engineering an Empire, Peter Weller

Photo: Peter Weller - "The Little Dog Laughed" Opening Night

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Peter Weller

Photo: Peter Weller - 18th Annual IFP Independent Spirit Awards

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Peter Weller

Photo: Peter Weller - Children Uniting Nations' Fourth Annual Awards Night Gala Fundraiser

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Peter Weller

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