Jim O'Brien
1947 - 2012Shadows on Our Skin
Jim O'Brien
MacRea Clarke, May Friel
A film from the novel by Jennifer Johnston introducing Joe is an 11-year-old boy growing up on the Bogside of Derry, Northern Ireland. A chance meeting with a girl on his way home from school promises to open up his life in an unexpected and exciting way.
Shadows on Our Skin
Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal
Jim O'Brien, Carl Schultz
Sean Patrick Flanery, George Hall
Old professor Henry Jones tells two youth about his adventures in his early days and his run-ins with a mummy's curse in Egypt and Mexican revolutionaries.
Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal
Foreign Affairs
Jim O'Brien
Joanne Woodward, Brian Dennehy
Two couples find love and comfort in London. A reserved, but lonely aging American female college professor meats a self-confident, married, but disillusioned aging American and aging English actress meats a young lively American.
Foreign Affairs
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
Jim O'Brien, Michael Schultz
Corey Carrier, Margaret Tyzack
In the first film in the series, in May 1908, famed Professor Henry Jones Sr. is invited to give lectures all over the world. He takes along his wife and son, and invites his former tutor Miss Helen Seymour to teach Henry Jr. during the trip. Their first stop is Cairo, Egypt. When Junior, who prefers to be called 'Indy' and Miss Seymour visit the pyramids, they are invited by T.E. Lawrence (another former student of hers) to join an archaeological dig. When the mummy disappears and a priceless headpiece is stolen, young Indy gets his first taste of adventure. On their next stop in Tangiers, the family stays with Professor Jones' former class mate Walter Harris. Indy befriends a young slave named Omar who belongs to Emily Keen. The two of them get into trouble when they Indy insists on visiting the market place to see a salted head displayed on a pole. Caught by slave traders, they are end up at an auction from which only Harris can attempt to rescue them.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
They Call Me Bruce?
Elliott Hong
Johnny Yune, John Louie
While working as a cook for the Cosa Nostra, an Asian immigrant who everyone calls Bruce because of his resemblance to Bruce Lee, is duped into making deliveries of "Chinese Flour"- cocaine - all across the U.S.
They Call Me Bruce?
Beyond Reason
Jim O'Brien
Simon Shepherd, Jennifer Ehle
Susan Christie and Duncan McAllister have an affair, but Duncan ends the relationship when he's posted to Germany. Three days later, Susan and Duncan's wife, Penny, go for a walk in the woods in Northern Ireland. Fifteen minutes later, Penny is dead and Susan claims they were attacked by an unknown man.
Beyond Reason