Alan SilvestriFilmography

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Marlon Wayans, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rachel Nichols, Sienna Miller, Christopher Eccleston, Saïd Taghmaoui, Lee Byung-hun

Synopsis: Director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, Van Helsing) adapts the beloved Hasbro G.I. Joe toy line with this Paramount Pictures production that pits the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity against the evil forces of the organization known as Cobra. Dennis Quaid and Channing Tatum star as General Read More

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Owen Wilson

Synopsis: Ben Stiller returns as Larry Daley, the unfortunate night watchman who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits in Night at the Museum 2: Escape From the Smithsonian, 20th Century Fox's tent-pole sequel from director Shawn Levy. Scott Frank, Robert Ben Garant, and Thomas Lennon Read More

Hannah Montana: The Movie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso

Synopsis: Hannah Montana: The Movie opens with Hannah's ($Miley Cyrus) hectic lifestyle wrecking the important relationships in her life. Because she gets into a catfight over shoes with Tyra Banks, she forgets to say goodbye when her brother leaves for college, and she's late for her best friend's sweet Read More

Beowulf

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Conductor, Songwriter

Actors: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: Inspired by the epic Old English poem of the same name, director Robert Zemeckis's digitally rendered film follows the Scandinavian hero Beowulf (Ray Winstone) as he fights to protect the Danes from a ferocious beast named Grendel (Crispin Glover). Though at first Grendel seems invincible, Beowulf Read More

Night at the Museum

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry, Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams

Synopsis: The new night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History finds that the job comes with more responsibility than he ever dreamed in this wild fantasy comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke. Larry Daley (Stiller) is a Read More

The Wild

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Conductor

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner

Synopsis: A handful of zoo animals leave behind their well-protected environment for the streets of the big city in this computer-animated comedy. Sampson (voice of Kiefer Sutherland) is the king of a make-believe jungle far from the African plains -- he's a lion on display at a zoo in New York City's Read More

The Polar Express

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Eddie Deezen, Tom Hanks

Synopsis: Directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on children's author Chris Van Allsburg's modern holiday classic of the same name, The Polar Express revolves around Billy (Hayden McFarland), who longs to believe in Santa Claus but finds it quite difficult to do so, what with his family's dogged insistence Read More

Van Helsing

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Conductor

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, David Wenham, Shuler Hensley, Elena Anaya, Will Kemp, Kevin J. O'Connor, Alun Armstrong

Synopsis: The greatest monster hunter of them all has his work cut out for him as he tracks down three deadly foes in this action-adventure saga. Gabriel Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) is a man who has dedicated his life to battling evil forces who exist outside the bounds of nature; Van Helsing's work has not Read More

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie, Noah Taylor

Synopsis: This sequel to the 2001 hit video-game adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider finds Jan de Bont stepping in for director Simon West, helming his first feature since 1999's The Haunting. From a script by first-time scribe Dean Georgaris, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life finds Angelina Jolie Read More

Identity

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: Ten strangers are brought together during a weather emergency, only to discover a far greater danger awaits them in this suspense-drama. A sudden rainstorm in a remote desert town strands a disparate variety of people at a rundown motel. A convict sentenced to death, Malcolm Rivers (Pruitt Taylor Vince Read More

Maid in Manhattan

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Frances Conroy, Christopher Eigeman, Ralph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson, Stanley Tucci

Synopsis: Can a wealthy Republican politician find happiness with a chambermaid from the Bronx? One man is about to find out, though he hardly realizes it at first, in this romantic comedy from director Wayne Wang. Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez) is a single mother who is raising her gifted but Read More

Stuart Little 2

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Nathan Lane

Synopsis: This sequel to a family hit based on the popular children's book by E.B. White again mixes live action actors with computer-animated cartoon characters. Michael J. Fox returns as the voice of Stuart Little, a three-inch tall talking mouse adopted by a human family in New York City. When his older Read More

Lilo & Stitch

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: A lonely little girl makes a very unusual friend -- a ukulele-playing alien who likes to toss around small automobiles -- in this antic animated comedy from Walt Disney Studios. Lilo (voice of Daveigh Chase) is a young Hawaiian girl being raised by her teenaged sister Nani (voice of Tia Carrere) Read More

Showtime

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Conductor

Actors: Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, Pedro Damien, Mos Def

Synopsis: Robert DeNiro continues to lampoon his tough-guy persona with this spoof of buddy cop movies that teams him with comic co-star Eddie Murphy. DeNiro is L.A.P.D. detective Mitch Preston, a gruff, no-nonsense 28-year veteran whose bust of a drug gang is botched one night by Trey Sellars (Murphy), a Read More

Serendipity

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Molly Shannon, Jeremy Piven, John Corbett, Bridget Moynahan

Synopsis: After the long-delayed Town and Country, director Peter Chelsom turns in his second 2001 effort with this love-at-first-sight romantic comedy that revolves around fate, destiny, and chance. Jonathan (John Cusack) and Sara (Kate Beckinsale) are two New Yorkers already in relationships when they Read More

The Mummy Returns

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr

Synopsis: This big-budget sequel from writer/director Stephen Sommers navigates much of the same cliffhanger territory as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones franchise. It is 1933, eight years after the events of The Mummy (1999). Legionnaire Rick O'Connell Brendan Fraser has married his Read More

The Mexican

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini, Bob Balaban, J.K. Simmons

Synopsis: A clumsy criminal is put in a position where he not only has to save his own skin, but that of his girlfriend in this comedy with strong undercurrents of romance. Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt) is a low-level Mafia "mechanic" whose ineptitude is countered by frequent (but unpredictable) bursts of dumb Read More

Cast Away

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Chris Noth

Synopsis: An exploration of human survival and the ability of fate to alter even the tidiest of lives with one major event, Cast Away tells the story of Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a Federal Express engineer who devotes most of his life to his troubleshooting job. His girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) is often Read More

What Women Want

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Mark Feuerstein, Lauren Holly, Ashley Johnson

Synopsis: A man finds himself getting an unexpected crash course in the psychology of contemporary women in this romantic comedy. Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a successful advertising executive living in Chicago who has long fancied himself a ladies' man, though he has precious little understanding of Read More

What Lies Beneath

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Conductor

Actors: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid, Miranda Otto, James Remar, Joe Morton

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, a woman believes that a visitor from another dimension is trying to guide her into a sinister mystery. Feeling lonely after her daughter leaves home for college, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer) begins to sense that something is wrong in her house, and feels a spirit is Read More

Reindeer Games

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, Dennis Farina, James Frain

Synopsis: A burglar looking to make time with a beautiful woman after five years in prison falls into a dangerous trap in this action drama. Rudy (Ben Affleck) is serving time in prison for auto theft, where he becomes friendly with his cellmate Nick (James Frain). Nick has been enjoying a spicy courtship Read More

Stuart Little

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Miles Marsico, Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Nathan Lane, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story is brought to the screen in this fantasy, which combines computer-animated characters with a cast of live actors. Mrs. Little (Geena Davis), Mr. Little (Hugh Laurie), and their son George (Jonathan Lipnicki) live in a brownstone near New York's Central Park. Read More

Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: Two men with gleaming white teeth, whips, and a bevy of large cats in cages are at the center of this glitzy 3-D IMAX spectacular. The film opens with two young boys sneaking backstage, hoping to glimpse the secret that is Siegfried and Roy. Instead of discovering how to make a puma spring from a Read More

Practical Magic

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: Griffin Dunne directed this romantic fantasy adapted from the 1995 Alice Hoffman novel about the Owens family of witches, regarded as outcasts in the town where they live. Aunt Frances (Stockard Channing) and her sister Aunt Jet (Dianne Wiest) tried to pass on practical magic skills to their Read More

Holy Man

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Goldblum, Kelly Preston, Robert Loggia, Jon Cryer

Synopsis: Stephen Herek directed this comedy-drama in which soul-less exec Ricky Hayman (Jeff Goldblum), programmer for the failing Good Buy Shopping Network, is dismayed by a request to increase sales in two weeks. Bald do-gooder guru G. (Eddie Murphy) assists when Ricky and marketing director Kate (Kelly Preston Read More

The Odd Couple II

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Christine Baranski, Barnard Hughes, Jonathan Silverman

Synopsis: Howard Deutch directed this sequel to the The Odd Couple (1968), originally adapted from the 1965 Broadway comedy by Neil Simon. Thirty years later, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) and retired sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau) meet at LAX and drive a rental car across the desert to attend the Read More

The Parent Trap

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter

Synopsis: The husband-and-wife team of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, who scored with their 1991 remake of the 1950 Father of the Bride, returned for this updating of the 1961 comedy about twins who hope to bring their divorced parents back together. Sheyer and Meyers stayed close to the original Read More

Volcano

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline Kim

Synopsis: Disaster visits jaded L.A. in the form of an underground volcano, not the big earthquake all the citizens expect. Shot on the largest set ever constructed in the U.S., in nearby Torrance, California, Volcano is a big-budget, special-effects-laden disaster movie with a standard plot. Tommy Lee Jones Read More

Fools Rush In

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek, Jon Tenney, Carlos Gomez, Siobhan Fallon

Synopsis: Two relative strangers try to turn a one night stand into a marriage in this romantic comedy. Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish Read More

Mouse Hunt

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Vicki Lewis, Maury Chaykin, Eric Christmas

Synopsis: Gore Verbinski, the TV-commercials director responsible for the Budweiser frogs, directed this Adam Rifkin screenplay about two brothers (Nathan Lane and Lee Evans) who inherit a string factory and a decaying country home after the death of their father (the late William Hickey, in his last role). Read More

Contact

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned to develop a different sort of faith in the Read More

Sgt. Bilko

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman, Glenne Headly, Daryl Mitchell

Synopsis: The classic 1955-59 sitcom The Phil Silvers Show (also known as "You'll Never Get Rich" in its first few episodes) became this high concept comedy with an all-star cast. Steve Martin stars as U.S. Army Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko, a conniving motor pool supervisor who uses his position to Read More

Eraser

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa Williams, James Coburn, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: Top-notch action sequences and exciting stunt work highlight this fast-moving thriller. John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a top agent in the U.S. Marshalls' Witness Protection Program; it's his job to "erase" the pasts of Federal witnesses under his watch and deal with anyone who tries to Read More

The Long Kiss Goodnight

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Malahide, Craig Bierko, Brian Cox

Synopsis: An ordinary woman discovers that her life was not always ordinary in this action thriller. Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a typical, well-mannered single mother working as a schoolteacher when she isn't looking after her children. Nothing on the surface would seem to be remarkable about Read More

The Perez Family

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Makeup

Actors: Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina, Anjelica Huston, Chazz Palminteri, Trini Alvarado

Synopsis: Old and new loves are turned upside down through a complex case of mistaken identities in this romantic comedy-drama. In 1980, Juan Raul Perez (Alfred Molina) is released from a Cuban prison after spending 20 years behind bars and is allowed to join a mass emigration to the U.S. While Juan was Read More

The Quick and the Dead

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Roberts Blossom, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobin Bell

Synopsis: Director Sam Raimi brings his trademark comic book-influenced visual panache to this post-modern Western. Sharon Stone stars as Ellen, a mysterious female gunslinger who arrives in the frontier hamlet of Redemption for a contest pitting quick-draw artists against each other. The event is the Read More

Judge Dredd

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Joan Chen

Synopsis: A violent, effects-heavy science fiction adventure, Judge Dredd depicts a nightmarish future in which overcrowded cities are terrorized by brutal gun battles and policed by "Judges," law officers who act as judge, jury, and executioner. Sylvester Stallone stars as Judge Dredd, a punishing enforcer Read More

Grumpier Old Men

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: In this sequel to the surprise hit Grumpy Old Men, life goes on much as it usually does in Wabasha County, Minnesota, with the only notable differences being that John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) are getting along all right (or at least to the extent that they're Read More

Father of the Bride II

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short, Kimberly Williams, George Newbern

Synopsis: Just as the original 1950 version of Father of the Bride spawned a sequel, so did the 1991 remake; like its counterpart four decades earlier, this story concerns a father who learns that his anxieties are just beginning after his daughter takes the big walk down the aisle. George Banks (Steve Martin Read More

Forrest Gump

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field

Synopsis: "Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most Read More

I Love Trouble

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Julia Roberts, Nick Nolte, Saul Rubinek, James Rebhorn, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: In the style of the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, I Love Trouble depicts the developing romance of two rival reporters who reluctantly fall for each other while competing for a major scoop. Old hand Peter Brackett (Nick Nolte) and aspiring newcomer Sabrina Peterson (Julia Roberts) Read More

Richie Rich

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, John Larroquette, Edward Herrmann, Jonathan Hyde, Christine Ebersole

Synopsis: A purposely outlandish cartoon created in 1953, Harvey Comics hero Richie Rich finally came to the big screen in 1994, when a boy billionaire was not quite as fanciful an idea. Richie Rich (Macaulay Culkin) is the wealthiest boy in the world, but even though he loves his doting parents, Richard (Edward Herrmann Read More

Clean Slate

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dana Carvey, Valeria Golino, James Earl Jones, Kevin Pollak, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Dana Carvey plays a private detective who forgets everything when he goes to sleep at night, waking up each morning with a "clean slate," in this hit-and-miss comedy that plays like a companion piece to the much funnier Groundhog Day. Pogue (Carvey) is afflicted with his unique form of amnesia Read More

Blown Away

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker, Suzy Amis

Synopsis: Opening within one month from each other in 1994, Blown Away invited many comparisons to Speed. Both are pyrotechnical displays involving mad bombers and a multitude of flying building debris and body parts. The cop and the mad bomber in this one are Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges), a veteran of the Read More

Sidekicks

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Chuck Norris, Jonathan Brandis, Beau Bridges, Mako, Julia Nickson

Synopsis: A teenager daydreams of getting some payback from the bullies who menace him in this hybrid of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and The Karate Kid (1984). Barry Gabrewski (Jonathan Brandis) is an asthmatic schoolboy who can't participate in sports, much to the delight of a bullying classmate Read More

Super Mario Bros.

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fisher Stevens

Synopsis: The huge success of the video games featuring animated Italian plumbers the Mario Brothers led to this $42 million live action movie. The two brothers (Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo) live in Manhattan and are chasing Princess Daisy (Samantha Mathis), who wears a necklace made from a meteor Read More

Cop and a Half

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Norman D. Golden II, Ruby Dee, Holland Taylor, Ray Sharkey

Synopsis: When an eight-year-old black youth (Norman D. Golden II) witnesses a mob hit, he orders the police to make him a cop for a day before he will help identify the killer. Detective Nick McKenna (Burt Reynolds) is the unfortunate assigned to the case. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Judgment Night

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven

Synopsis: In Judgment Night, an action-packed thriller directed by Stephen Hopkins, a group of young middle-class men Emilio Estevez Cuba Gooding Jr. Jeremy Piven and Stephen Dorff on a night out with the boys take a disastrous wrong turn that leads to a run-in with a vicious street gang led by Fallon (Denis Leary Read More

Grumpy Old Men

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: This cheerful holiday comedy, a surprise box office smash, featured a generous dollop of raunchy, crude humor and was greatly elevated by the presence of masterful performers in the lead roles. Jack Lemmon is John Gustafson, an ice-fishing Minnesota native who has been feuding with his neighbor Read More

The Bodyguard

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp, Bill Cobbs, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Lawrence Kasdan originally wrote his script for The Bodyguard in the late 1960s as a vehicle for Steve McQueen; by the time it reached the screen, Kasdan's star was another movie hearthrob, Kevin Costner. When imperious musical superstar Whitney Houston begins receiving death threats, she is Read More

Death Becomes Her

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy

Synopsis: High-concept director Robert Zemeckis applies his usual polish -- helped by an equally adept cast -- for this surprisingly gruesome and extremely funny black comedy. The film begins with narcissistic actress Madeline (Meryl Streep) stealing the latest in a series of potential fiancées, wimpy Read More

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tim Curry, Robin Williams, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Jonathan Ward

Synopsis: A man finds himself living among the animals and enchanted spirits of the rainforest, and learns of the true consequences of human destruction in this animated adventure. Crysta (voice of Samantha Mathis) is a young fairy who is being tutored in the powers of magic by the older and wiser Magi Read More

Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams, Roger Rees, Martin Ferrero

Synopsis: Despite his status as a major action star, Sylvester Stallone has made a number of attempts to remodel himself as a comic actor; one of his more infamous efforts in this direction was Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot!. Police detective Joe Bromowski (Sylvester Stallone) has just broken off his Read More

Father of the Bride

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams, Kieran Culkin, George Newbern

Synopsis: Steve Martin stars in this remake of the 1950 Vincente Minnelli classic as shoe executive George Banks, whose happily married existence hits a bump when he greets his daughter Annie (Kimberly Williams), home from a semester studying in Europe. She tells her father that she is engaged to be Read More

Shattered

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley, Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: Wolfgang Petersen directed this intricate suspense thriller, based on the novel by Richard Neely and starring Tom Berenger as Tom Merrick, who begins to suspect the auto accident that caused his memory loss may not have been accidental. The film begins with a car crash over a seaside cliff in San Read More

Ricochet

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak, Lindsay Wagner

Synopsis: Ricochet, a suspenseful, exciting police thriller that loses its way at the end, is the story of a good cop whose life is destroyed by an obsessed psychotic criminal whom he sent to prison years before. Nick (Denzel Washington) is a successful happily married police officer with a distinguished Read More

Dutch

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ed O'Neill, Ethan Randall, JoBeth Williams, Christopher McDonald, Ari Meyers

Synopsis: John Hughes re-works his already over-used formulas from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and Uncle Buck in this bald-faced rip-off directed by Peter Faiman. Ed O'Neill stars as working stiff Dutch Dooley. Dutch is in love with Natalie (JoBeth Williams), who is recovering from a failed marriage to Read More

Soapdish

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Cathy Moriarty, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: In the comedic farce Soapdish, the behind-the-scenes lives of several soap opera actors are just as melodramatic as those of their television counterparts. Sally Field stars as Celeste Talbert, the star of a declining TV show. To make matters worse, Talbert's career is thrown into turmoil when her Read More

Predator 2

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton

Synopsis: This special effects-heavy science fiction sequel moves the action from the first film's Amazon forest to the urban jungle of L.A. Danny Glover stars as Lt. Mike Harrigan, an LAPD detective baffled by his latest case, the ritualistic slaughter of several drug dealers by a devastating killer who Read More

Young Guns 2

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William L. Petersen

Synopsis: Only three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) -- return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group Read More

Back to the Future Part III

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson

Synopsis: The final installment in the Back to the Future trilogy picks up where the second film left off, but it casts off the dizzying time travel of the first two films for mostly routine comedy set in the Old West. Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) receives a 70-year-old letter from his inventor friend, Doc Read More

Downtown

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, Penelope Ann Miller, Joe Pantoliano, David Clennon

Synopsis: When suburban police officer Alex Kearney (Anthony Edwards) angers a wealthy, influential citizen by stopping him for a traffic violation, he finds himself transferred to the city's worst precinct. Struggling to adapt to his new inner-city surroundings, Kearney must deal with his gruff new Read More

Back to the Future Part II

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Harry Waters, Jr.

Synopsis: Things have barely settled from the excitement and resolve of the original Back to the Future, when in pops that crazy inventor Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) with news that in order to prevent a series of events that could ruin the McFly name for posterity, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox ) and Read More

The Abyss

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmeister, Todd Graff

Synopsis: The crew of an experimental, high-tech submersible is called into action to investigate a mysterious nuclear submarine crash. A series of strange encounters leads the crew to suspect the accident was caused by an extraterrestrial craft, and that they may be participating in an encounter with an Read More

She's Out of Control

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tony Danza, Catherine Hicks, Ami Dolenz, Wallace Shawn, Dick O'Neill

Synopsis: Director Stan Dragoti, whose forte is plumbing the depths of the male psyche, plumbs those depths once again in She's Out of Control. Tony Danza stars as Doug Simpson, a broadcasting executive who has trouble adjusting to the fact that his fifteen-year-old daughter Katie (Ami Dolenz) is blossoming Read More

Tales From the Crypt [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: It isn't often that a popular TV series is inspired by a literary property that all but destroyed a particular industry, but such was the case with the weekly, half-hour horror anthology Tales From the Crypt. Most of the episodes depicted herein were based on stories originally published in the EC Read More

My Stepmother Is an Alien

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Seth Green, Juliette Lewis, Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan, Joseph Maher

Synopsis: An astrophysicist falls in love with a beautiful woman who is actually a disguised extraterrestrial in this high-concept comedy. Dan Aykroyd plays Steven Mills, a dedicated and harmlessly odd scientist researching ways to send radio signals to deep space. Unbeknownst to him, one of his experiments Read More

MAC and Me

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jade Calegory, Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary, Lauren Stanley

Synopsis: This sci-fi tearjerker has the distinction of being one of the most obviously commercial films ever made with constant plugs for MacDonalds, Coca-Cola companies, candy and other products. These not so subtle endorsements are woven into the story of a wheel-chair bound boy and the stranded alien Read More

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Alan Tilvern

Synopsis: In Robert Zemeckis's trailblazing combination of animation and live-action, Hollywood's 1940s cartoon stars are a subjugated minority, living in the ghettolike "Toontown" where their movements are sharply monitored by the human power establishment. The Toons are permitted to perform in a Cotton Read More

Overboard

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Michael Hagerty

Synopsis: This screwball comedy casts real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in a film that finds the latter returning to her roots in a role reminiscent of Private Benjamin (1980). Hawn stars as Joanna Stayton, a snooty heiress who summons carpenter Dean Proffitt (Russell) to her lavish yacht, where Read More

Predator

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Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura

Synopsis: Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a code of honor which he will not violate, even when his life depends on it. Paradoxically, his code of honor gives him the backbone to survive as a military special forces operative when he is sent on a covert mission to rescue another group which was sent in to Read More

Outrageous Fortune

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Shelley Long, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote, Robert Prosky, John Schuck

Synopsis: Two women with serious differences are forced to look out for each other in this anarchic comedy. Sandy (Bette Midler) and Lauren (Shelley Long) are a pair of struggling actresses who don't get along especially well -- and are even less fond of each other when they discover that they're both Read More

Critical Condition

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Pryor, Rachel Ticotin, Rubén Blades, Joe Mantegna, Bob Dishy

Synopsis: When a small-time businessman (Richard Pryor) needs a loan, he goes to a loan shark and ends up in jail on false pretenses. After feigning madness to get out, he is tossed into the mental ward of a hospital. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

No Mercy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé, George Dzundza, Gary Basaraba

Synopsis: High-powered gangsters move this crime drama along at a fast pace. When two cops, Eddie Jillette (Richard Gere) and Joe Collins (Gary Basaraba), hear about a contract out on local crime boss Losado (Jeroen Krabbe), they go undercover posing as hitmen, and the result is murder. Collins and the man Read More

Flight of the Navigator

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matt Adler

Synopsis: The year is 1978: 12-year-old Joey Cramer, playing in the woods near his home, is knocked unconscious. He awakens and heads home, only to find strangers living there. He also finds that the year is 1986, and that he's been officially missing for eight years. NASA officials determine that Cramer Read More

American Anthem

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mitch Gaylord, Janet Jones, Michelle Phillips, R.J. Williams, Michael Pataki

Synopsis: An exciting climax at a gymnastics competition highlights this sports-themed drama. Steve (Olympic champion Mitch Gaylord) finds his hopes for a successful career are in doubt when his family relationships suddenly fall apart. He and his father are continually at odds while his younger brother and Read More

The Delta Force

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the Read More

The Clan of the Cave Bear

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Pamela Reed, James Remar, Thomas G. Waites, John Doolittle

Synopsis: Cinematographer Michael Chapman directed this John Sayles adaptation of Jean M. Auel's best-selling ode to Cro-Magnon women. The story begins at the moment in pre-history when the last of the Neanderthal men were becoming extinct and the superior race of Cro-Magnons were starting to supersede Read More

Amazing Stories: Go to the Head of the Class

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Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Scott Coffey, Mary Stuart Masterson

Back to the Future

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson

Synopsis: Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must also endure the acrimonious relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely mother (Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the Read More

Summer Rental

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Candy, Rip Torn, Richard Crenna, Karen Austin, Kerri Green, Aubrey Jene, Joey Lawrence

Synopsis: This routine comedy is about a series of misadventures during a family vacation at the beach and stars John Candy (who died of a heart attack while filming in Mexico in 1994) as John Chester and Karen Austin as his long-suffering wife Sandy. When the family leave for what turns out to be a pretty Read More

Cat's Eye

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Kenneth McMillan, Robert Hays

Synopsis: Cat's Eye is an uneven, tepid trilogy of stories written by Stephen King connected by a cat which appears at the beginning of each story. The best story, and first episode, concerns chain-smoker Morrison (James Woods) who joins a stop-smoking group run by sadistic Dr. Monatti, played with great Read More

Fandango

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson, Sam Robards, Chuck Bush, Brian Cesak

Synopsis: The still unknown Kevin Costner carries this film that involves five college roommates on a last "fandango" before they separately face the harsh realities of an unpredictable future. It is 1971, and the Vietnam War has not yet ended. Gardner Barnes (Costner) has extended his college years by six Read More

Romancing the Stone

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau

Synopsis: Kathleen Turner plays a writer of adventure stories, Joan Wilder, who has been having trouble selling her works of late because they aren't remotely believable. The basic problem is that the mousy Joan has never had any real adventure in her life. All this changes when she receives a frantic phone Read More

The Fifth Floor

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bo Hopkins, Diane Hull, Patti D'Arbanville, Sharon Farrell, Mel Ferrer

Synopsis: With a cast sure to please cult and horror fans alike, this pseudo-women's-prison film from director Hikmet Avedis is a good bet for genre followers. Pretty Dianne Hull plays Kelly McIntire, a disco bartender who is poisoned as part of a botched murder scheme and sent to a mental hospital. Once Read More

The Amazing Dobermans

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Fred Astaire, James Franciscus, Barbara Eden, Jack Carter, Billy Barty

Synopsis: A circus goes to the dogs (or, more accurately, the dogs come to the circus) in this light-hearted action-adventure tale. Lucky Vincent (James Franciscus) is a gambler who, after a stretch of bad luck, owes over $12,000 to mobster Solly Kramer (Jack Carter). Lucky is rescued from Solly's goons by Read More

Las Vegas Lady

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Stella Stevens, Stuart Whitman, George DiCenzo, Lynne Moody, Linda Scruggs

Synopsis: This heist film stars Stella Stevens as a robber who enlists her friends--a trapeze artist and a magician's aide--to help her make off with $500,000 in casino cash. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Doberman Gang

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Hal Reed

Synopsis: A small-time crook (Byron Mabe) hits upon the clever plan of training Dobermans to substitute for criminals in a bank-robbery scheme. He hires a military dog-trainer (Hal Reed) and pulls off the heist, though problems arise due to the dogs--perhaps trained too well. The 1972 film spawned two Read More