The list of current and former film actors goes on, including Gabriel Byrne ("Madigan Men, " ABC), Ellen Burstyn ("That's Life, " CBS), Oliver Platt, Tom Conti, Hope Davis and Lili Taylor ("Deadline, " NBC), and Tom Everett Scott ("The Street, " Fox).

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With John Lithgow and Oliver Platt.

NEWYORKER: Kinsey

So she teams up with a game warden (Bill Pullman), a lawman (Brendan Gleeson), and a hairy crocophile (Oliver Platt) to find the beast and slay it or rather, this being part of the eco-friendly horror genre, to trap it alive in the interests of science and ogling.

NEWYORKER: Lake Placid