Alan RudolphFilmography

Born:: December 18, 1943 in Los Angeles, CA
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: American director Alan Rudolph was the son of Oscar Rudolph, a one-time actor who later directed such low budget films as Twist Around the Clock and such economical TV fare as "The Lone Ranger." While studying accounting at UCLA, the younger Rudolph dropped out to work in minor production...Read More

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Nick Nolte: No Exit

Synopsis: Nick Nolte offers a unique glimpse into his life and his art in this documentary. In Nick Nolte: No Exit, the respected actor appears both as himself and as a television journalist who is interviewing Nolte for a film on his career. The smart-suited reporter grills the slightly scruffy actor about Read More

2008
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Synopsis: The Z Channel wasn't America's first premium cable outlet specializing in feature films, and it wasn't the most commercially successful, but few, if any, had as strong an impact on the film industry or a more influential list of customers. Based in California and blanketing sections of the state Read More

10/15/04
The Secret Lives of Dentists

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary, Robin Tunney, Gianna Beleno

Synopsis: A gentle man suddenly finds himself at a loss for what to do when he suspects his wife has been unfaithful in this comedy drama from director Alan Rudolph. David and Dana Hurst (Campbell Scott and Hope Davis) are a married couple with three children who also happen to be dentists who share an Read More

8/1/03
Investigating Sex

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Alan Cumming, Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney, Nick Nolte

Synopsis: A group of bohemian intellectuals struggle to have an intelligent discussion of perhaps the world's most emotional subject in this comedy-drama from director Alan Rudolph. Edgar (Dermot Mulroney) is an artist living in Paris during the 1920s who believes that sex is a subject of vital importance Read More

2001
Trixie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emily Watson, Dermot Mulroney, Nick Nolte, Nathan Lane, Brittany Murphy, Lesley Ann Warren, Will Patton

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph directed and co-wrote this eccentric comedy about a woman who bumbles her way into fighting crime. Trixie Zurbo (Emily Watson) is a well-meaning but scatter-brained casino security guard, who dreams of a career as a private detective. Her ambition accidentally becomes reality when Read More

6/28/00
Breakfast of Champions

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly

Synopsis: In a small American town called Midland City, Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis) -- a loyal father, a successful car dealer, and a respected member of the community --lives with his wife Celia (Barbara Hershey), who's addicted to pills and TV shows, and his son Bunny (Lukas Haas), who is a weakling. Read More

9/17/99
Afterglow

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Jay Underwood

Synopsis: Director Alan Rudolph offers a typically idiosyncratic look at a relationship approaching the point of collapse. Phyllis Mann (Julie Christie) and her husband Lucky (Nick Nolte) are a married couple living in Montreal whose marriage has slowly skidded to a halt. There's still a glimmer of Read More

1997
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Broderick, Campbell Scott, Peter Gallagher, Jennifer Beals

Synopsis: Jennifer Jason Leigh offers an acclaimed performance as humorist Dorothy Parker, who together with such 1920s luminaries as Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman, was a charter member of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. The story is related in flashback form, as Mrs. Parker Read More

1994
Equinox

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Fred Ward, Tyra Ferrell, Tate Donovan, Marisa Tomei

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph wrote and directed this typically off-beat drama. A brief romantic liaison between a wealthy European and an American ballet dancer results in a pair of identical twins, who are separated and raised by others shortly after birth. Henry (Matthew Modine) was adopted by Pete (M. Emmet Walsh Read More

1993
The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

4/10/92
Mortal Thoughts

Crew: Director

Actors: Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, John Pankow

Synopsis: Mortal Thoughts is a low-key thriller revolving around the relationship between two best friends who are involved in the death of one of their husbands. The movie unfolds as the events leading to a confession are shown in flashback. Joyce (Glenne Headly) is married to the abusive, unfaithful James Read More

4/19/91
Love at Large

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins, Anne Archer, Ted Levine, Annette O'Toole

Synopsis: Director Alan Rudolph's 1989 model mood piece stars Tom Berenger as shabby private eye Harry Dobbs, who is hired by the mysterious Miss Dolan (Anne Archer). Dolan wants Dobbs to tail her abusive boyfriend, Rick (Neil Young). Dobbs immediately demonstrates his uncanny powers of detection by Read More

3/9/90
Hollywood Mavericks

Actors: Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Peter Bogdanovich, D.W. Griffith, Erich Von Stroheim

Synopsis: This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the system." It also explores the life and work of earlier American mavericks through the tributes, reflections, and recollections of the first group. Prominent among the living Read More

1990
The Moderns

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: In the expatriate-littered Paris of the 1920s, painter Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) mingles with Ernest Hemingway (Kevin O'Connor) and other leading lights of the Lost Generation while palling around with gossip columnist Oiseau (Wallace Shawn), whose reportage has helped establish the Read More

4/15/88
Made in Heaven

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton, Don Murray, Ellen Barkin, Marj Dusay

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph directed this offbeat, boy-meets-girl romance in which boy dies, dead boy meets dead girl, dead boy loses dead girl, and dead boy tries to find dead girl again. The tale begins is a small Pennsylvania town, where Mike Shea (Timothy Hutton) dreams of escaping small town life and moving Read More

11/6/87
Trouble in Mind

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Geneviève Bujold, Joe Morton

Synopsis: The time is The Future: the place is Rain City, formerly Seattle. The city is a police state, while the citizens have adopted the manner and dress of 1940s gangsters. Recently released from prison, ex-cop Kris Kristofferson tries to touch base with his ex-girlfriend Genevieve Bujold, who runs a Read More

12/18/85
Choose Me

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau, Rae Dawn Chong

Synopsis: The lives of five L.A. natives intertwine in this romantic comedy from independent filmmaker and former Robert Altman protégé Alan Rudolph. Eve (Lesley Ann Warren) is a bar owner who has sworn off permanent commitments, seeking only the temporary sexual satisfaction of men. Her roommate Ann (Genevieve Bujold Read More

1984
Songwriter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon, Rip Torn, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: A good ol' boy comedy-drama, Songwriter flashes enough substance between the songs and the hijinks to qualify as a sometimes astute look into the darker areas of the music business. Willie Nelson plays Doc Jenkins, the title character, who conspires with longtime pal Blackie Buck (Kris Kristofferson Read More

1984
Return Engagement

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: G. Gordon Liddy, Dr. Timothy Leary, Carole Hemingway

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph's Return Engagement cannot by any stretch of the imagination be labelled "pure cinema." It is essentially a staged confrontation between two aging cultural icons. For nearly 90 minutes, LSD guru Timothy Leary trades insults and profundities with Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy. Read More

1983
Endangered Species

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Endangered Species stars Robert Urich and JoBeth Williams. Urich plays vacationing ex-cop Ruben Castle, while Williams portrays Harriet Purdue, a small-town sheriff. Intrigued by Purdue's investigation of a rash of cattle mutilations, Castle begins following the evidence Read More

1982
Roadie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Meat Loaf, Kaki Hunter, Art Carney, Gailard Sartain, Don Cornelius

Synopsis: Roadie is a showbiz saga about the working slobs who make live pop-music performances happen. Texas good ol' boy Travis W. Redfish (pop singer Meat Loaf) drives a Shiner beer truck on his appointed rounds, but he becomes smitten with rock groupie Lola Bouillabase (Kaki Hunter), a "roadie" whose Read More

1980
Remember My Name

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Berry Berenson, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: This disquieting domestic thriller from writer and director Alan Rudolph was produced by his long-time mentor Robert Altman. Anthony Perkins stars as Neil Curry, a construction worker living happily in suburbia with his wife Barbara (Berry Berenson) until their home becomes vandalized during the Read More

1978
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Harvey Keitel, Allan Nicholls

Synopsis: "Truth is whatever gets the loudest applause." Debunking western myths even more than he did in McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) sardonically explores the gap between western history and legend in show biz-obsessed Read More

1976
Welcome to L.A.

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Keith Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Lauren Hutton

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph's first feature Welcome to L.A. displays his characteristic mood of romantic despair utilizing a La Ronde-like circle of sexual adventures and failed affairs centered around song-writer Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine) which spread out through the city. Barber is an aloof womanizer Read More

1976
Barn of the Naked Dead

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Three young female entertainers on their way to a gig in Las Vegas are stranded in the desert when their car breaks down. A stranger named Andre (Andrew Prine) discovers them on the side of the road and offers assistance, which the girls accept, blinded by his good looks and stylish sheepskin Read More

1973
Premonition

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this low-budget horror outing, a trio of druggie college students freak out when they see their own deaths. Things get even wilder when they actually begin dying. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1971