Alex Rocco Filmography

Find Me Guilty

Actors: Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Ron Silver, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: A wise guy turns his own trial upside down by serving as his own lawyer in this comedy drama based on a true story. In 1987, an extensive investigation into the activities of the Lucchese crime family led to charges being filed against most of the key members of the gang, leading to the Read More

Jam

Synopsis: A car wreck causes the lives of 15 strangers to unexpectedly collide in this independent comedy drama. It's Father's Day, and Ted (William Forsythe) is out on the road with his 19-year-old son Josh (Dan Byrd). When Josh slams on the brakes to avoid hitting a dog along a two-lane highway in the Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Show Must Not Go On

Synopsis: 50 years ago, the Egyptian Theater was founded to "celebrate children." But in the intervening decades, theater owner Ben Horner (Alex Rocco) has come to despise all children, especially the juvenile delinquents who vandalize the Egyptian on a daily basis. Moreover, the theater's current resident Read More

The Country Bears

Actors: Christopher Walken, Stephen Tobolowsky, Daryl Mitchell, M.C. Gainey, Diedrich Bader

Synopsis: This family musical enjoys the dubious distinction of being the first film ever based on a theme park attraction, the "Country Bears Jamboree" at Disneyworld. Beary Barrington (voice of Haley Joel Osment) is an adolescent bruin raised by a human family after he was found by a park ranger Read More

Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie

Actors: David Krumholtz, Jennifer Morrison, Tory Kittles, Nicholas Turturro, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: Based on a real-life 1994 scandal involving college basketball point-shaving, Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie stars David Krumholtz as the title character. Though a mere freshman on the campus of Arizona State University, Benny Silman (Krumholtz) is in charge of accepting all bets for the Read More

The Wedding Planner

Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson, Justin Chambers, Judy Greer, Fred Willard

Synopsis: This lighthearted romantic comedy in the tradition of Runaway Bride (1999) casts Jennifer Lopez in the Julia Roberts mold. Lopez stars as Mary Fiore, an ambitious and successful San Francisco wedding planner who works only for the most wealthy and exclusive clients but who is also a perpetual Read More

Family Guy: Ready, Willing, and Disabled

Synopsis: At a charity car wash organized by Chris (voice of Seth Green), Meg (voice of Mila Kunis), Stewie (voice of Seth MacFarlane), and Chris find a wallet containing some cash. Joe (voice of Patrick Warburton) tells the kids that they have to post a notice about the missing wallet and wait two weeks Read More

Face To Face

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Alex Rocco, Joe Viterelli, Thomas Calabro, Scott Baio

Synopsis: Three guys from New Jersey decide they need some male bonding with their fathers -- whether their fathers like it or not -- in this independent comedy. When his grandfather dies, Richie Gallo (Scott Baio) finds himself thinking about his relationship with his family, and realizes that he barely Read More

Dudley Do-Right

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina, Eric Idle, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: After giving George of the Jungle human form, Brendan Fraser returns to cartoon-land with another live-action update of an animated TV classic. Set in the peaceful village of Semi-Happy Valley high in the Canadian Rockies, our story focuses on Dudley Do-Right (Fraser), a member of the Royal Read More

Goodbye Lover

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Ellen DeGeneres, Mary-Louise Parker, Don Johnson

Synopsis: A darkly comic whodunit about greed, deceit, and romantic deception, Goodbye Lover stars Patricia Arquette as Sandra, a seemingly moral and obsessively cheerful woman who sells real estate and is fascinated by the movie The Sound Of Music. But Sandra has a secret; while she's married to Jake (Dermot Mulroney Read More

A Bug's Life

Actors: Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller

Synopsis: John Lasseter, director of Pixar's movie phenomenon Toy Story, has set new standards in computer animation with this effort, another Disney-released children's epic entitled A Bug's Life. Blending classic Disney storytelling characters and the mysterious underground world of bugs, Lasseter has Read More

Detroit 9000

Synopsis: Titled Detroit Heat for video release, this blaxploitation flick concerns two Motor City detectives (Hari Rhodes, Alex Rocco) on the trail of a gang of thieves who attacked a political rally. Noted blaxploitation fan Quentin Tarantino sponsored a theatrical re-release in 1998, with a video reissue Read More

Just Write

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn, Jeremy Piven, JoBeth Williams, Jeffrey D. Sams, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: This comedy blends a romance centered upon mistaken identity with a satiric, insider's look at the film industry. Harold (played by Jeremy Piven) lives in Hollywood and earns his living driving a tour bus that makes the rounds of the homes of the stars. One day, Harold sees his favorite actress Read More

That Thing You Do!

Actors: Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Charlize Theron, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry

Synopsis: Tom Hanks made his directorial debut in this bright comedy set in the mid-1960's about a rock group and their brief fling with fame. Guy Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) works as a salesman at his father's appliance store and plays the drums in his spare time, fancying himself a jazz musician. One Read More

Mad About You: Outbreak

Synopsis: Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt) have decided to hold off telling everyone that Jamie is pregnant until the couple can make a formal announcement at their Thanksgiving dinner. This plan is undermined by a number of "security leaks" in the office of gynecologist Joan Golfinos (Suzie Plakson Read More

Get Shorty

Actors: John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to Read More

The Spy Within

Synopsis: Alex (Theresa Russell is a government agent who trades sex for state secrets. Will (Scott Glenn) is a taciturn demolition expert troubled by a violent past. When the two find themselves being pursued by the same nefarious spy ring, bullets start flying and bedsprings start creaking. ~ Jonathan Read More

Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage

Synopsis: Made for television, the two-part, four-hour Love, Honor and Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage is the true story of "mob wife" Rosalie Profaci Bonanno, here played by Nancy McKeon. Inasmuch as the teleplay is based on Ms. Bonanno's memoirs, it is perhaps understandable that she casts herself as an Read More

Harmful Intent

Actors: Tim Matheson, Emma Samms, Robert Pastorelli, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: Following the death of a pregnant woman undergoing routine surgery, an anesthesiologist is falsely accused of drug abuse and charged with murder. Desperate to prove his innocence, the doctor escapes and quietly launches his own investigation into the tragedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Pope Must Diet

Actors: Robbie Coltrane, Beverly D'Angelo, Herbert Lom, Paul Bartel, Salvatore Cascio

Synopsis: A priest discovers that being the leader of the Catholic Church can be hazardous to your health in this satiric comedy. Cardinal Rocco (Alex Rocco) and Monsignor Vitchie (Paul Bartel) are two high-ranking Vatican officials who have been using the church's business dealings to launder funds for Read More

Boris and Natasha

Synopsis: A live-action rendering of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, this time we follow the exploits of the two Cold War "no-goodniks", Boris and Natasha. Sent from their beloved Pottsylvania by their "Fearless Leader", their job is to try to capture a missing time-reversing microchip. Espionage films being Read More

A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder

Synopsis: In this thriller, a suburban housewife begins playing detective after she overhears a neighborhood conspiracy to kill someone on her baby's intercom. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

How to Murder a Millionaire

Actors: David Ogden Stiers, Joan Rivers, Alex Rocco, Morgan Fairchild

Synopsis: The millionaire of the title is Joan Rivers, an over-aged Beverly Hills brat whom many of the film's characters want to see dead or in rags. Armed with only her mile-a-minute mouth, Rivers fends off con men, fortune hunters, and would-be murderers--among them, possibly, her own husband (Alex Read More

The Simpsons: Itchy & Scratchy & Marge

Actors: Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith

Synopsis: After watching the ultra-violent cartoon series The Itchy & Scratchy Show with Bart (voice of Nancy Cartwright) and Lisa (voice of Yeardley Smith), little Maggie picks up a hammer and attacks Homer (voice of Dan Castellaneta), much as the cartoon mouse pummeled the cat. Marge (voice of Julie Read More

Dream a Little Dream

Actors: Corey Feldman, Meredith Salenger, Jason Robards, Jr., Piper Laurie, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In 1987-88, a quartet of films with the same basic body-switching premise deluged theaters: Like Father, Like Son (1987), Big (1988), Vice Versa (1988), and 18 Again (1988). One year later, Dream a Little Dream (1989) followed suit. Coleman Ettinger (Jason Robards) is forever scolding the local Read More

Murphy Brown: And the Whiner Is...

Synopsis: "FYI"'s resident airhead Corky (Faith Ford) wins her first Humboldt Award for her special report "The Women's Touch at West Point", leaving Murphy (Candice Bergen) and Frank (Joe Regalbuto) stewing at the starting gate. Hoping to capitalize on all the publicity, Miles (Grant Shaud) assigns Corky Read More

Wired

Actors: Michael Chiklis, Ray Sharkey, J.T. Walsh, Patti D'Arbanville, Lucinda Jenney

Synopsis: This film, loosely-based on the book by Bob Woodward, follows the career of comedian John Belushi (Michael Chiklis) as his spirit is guided through the past by the Angel Velasquez (Ray Sharkey). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Lady in White

Actors: Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond, Jason Presson

Synopsis: In this supernatural nostalgia piece, a young boy tracks down a murderer with help from the ghosts of a slain little girl and her mother. In a voice-over, grown-up writer Frankie Scarlatti describes the disturbing events that intruded on his idyllic small-town boyhood. Locked in the school Read More

Rock 'n' Roll Mom

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Telma Hopkins, Michael Brandon, Heather Locklear, Nancy Lenehan

Synopsis: Dyan Cannon plays the title character, a middle-aged housewife and mother who enjoys singing in local amateur contests. Almost overnight, she becomes a nationally famous rock star, with all the attendant trappings of glamour and adulation. But fame has its price: As Cannon rises to the top of her Read More

P.K. and the Kid

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Molly Ringwald, Alex Rocco, Charles Hallahan, John de Santi

Synopsis: Paul Le Mat and Molly Ringwald star in this limp-wristed drama about an arm-wrestling contest. P.K. (Ringwald) runs away from home after her mother's boyfriend Lester (Alex Rocco) continues his unwanted advances. She hitches a ride with The Kid (Paul Le Mat), who is on his way to an annual Read More

Return to Horror High

Actors: Lori Lethin, Brendan Hughes, Alex Rocco, Scott Jacoby, Andy Romano

Synopsis: In 1982, Crippen High School was the scene of a gruesome series of dismemberment murders, but the killer was never identified. Five years later, Cosmic Pictures arrives at the long-abandoned campus to make a low-budget horror movie based on the tragedy, and suddenly the terror begins anew. The Read More

Scenes from the Goldmine

Actors: Catherine Stewart, Cameron Dye, Steve Railsback, Joe Pantoliano, John Ford Coley

Synopsis: In this drama, a lovestruck songwriter is invited to join the band. At first she is thrilled to be near the band's handsome leader. They even embark upon an affair and she is very happy until she figures out that he is stealing her song. During the performances, the actors really play and sing. Read More

Hunter: Hot Prowl

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) finds it curious that burglary victim Carol Benson (Cindy Morgan) is reluctant to assist in his investigation of the theft of her diamond necklace. What Hunter doesn't know is that the necklace was a phony, and that the adulterous Mrs. Benson has resorted to fraud in order to Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Christopher Bundy-Died on Sunday

Synopsis: Few men in the publishing industry have more enemies than Christopher Bundy (Bert Convy), who has converted a once respectable magazine into a lurid tabloid specializing in tell-all exposes and pictures of nude women. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) angrily shows up at Bundy's Connecticut headquarters Read More

The A-Team: Champ!

Synopsis: Crooked promoter Sonny Monroe (Alex Rocco) is fixing boxing matches and using the prize money for his illegal drug-trafficking racket. When amateur boxer Billy Marquette (Daniel Faraldo) is ordered by Monroe to take a dive, Billy's family seeks out the A-Team for help. In a twinkling, B.A. (Mr. Read More

Braker

Synopsis: This TV pilot film stars Carl Weathers as Harry Braker, an ex-Marine who is his city's only African American police lieutenant. Tough but tender, Braker bends the rules to help the helpless. Braker's team of co-workers is the usual cop-show manifest: The gonzo (Randall "Tex" Cobb), the green Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Tough Guys Don't Die

Synopsis: Jerry Orbach makes his first series appearance as gruff but golden-hearted Boston private detective Harry McGraw. While researching a 25-year-old murder for her latest book, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) engages the services of McGraw's partner Archie Miles (Maltese Falcon fans take note!) When Miles Read More

Gotcha!

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Linda Fiorentino

Synopsis: "Gotcha!" is a puerile but popular campus game at UCLA in which students stalk one another armed with paint-spewing pellet guns. Veterinary student Anthony Edwards may not be any great shakes in the classroom, but he's a whiz at Gotcha. His skills come in handy when Edwards, on vacation in Paris Read More

Stick

Actors: Dar Robinson, Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal, Charles Durning, Jose Perez

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds directed and starred in this actioner from an Elmore Leonard novel about an ex-con living dangerously close to the drug traffickers in Miami. When Stick (Reynolds) arrives in Miami just out of prison, an old buddy of his is murdered, sending Stick on a wild and complex journey to Read More

Badge of the Assassin

Actors: James Woods, Yaphet Kotto, Alex Rocco, David Harris

Synopsis: Based on the true story that took place in Harlem during 1971, this made-for-TV crime drama centers on assistant district attorney Robert Tanenbaum's desperate search for a trio of cop killers. Tanenbaum (James Woods) is assisted by an equally determined detective (Yaphet Lau Kotto). ~ Sandra Read More

Cannonball Run II

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Shirley MacLaine, Marilu Henner, Dean Martin

Synopsis: (Burt Reynolds) as J.J. McClure takes off across the country again in this rickety sequel to Cannonball Run. A sheik has offered $1,000,000 to the first driver to reach a destination in Connecticut from Redondo Beach, California, inspiring J.J. and others to go for the gold. With cameos from more Read More

The First Time

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Susan Anspach, John Anderson, Peter Barton, Alex Rocco

The Entity

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye

Synopsis: Another "true story" of dubious authenticity, The Entity concerns a libidinous invisible presence. This unseen force repeatedly rapes poor Barbara Hershey, who can't get anyone to believe her stories of sexual assault. Frankly, she doesn't believe them herself until she undergoes therapy conducted Read More

Herbie Goes Bananas

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Charles Martin Smith, Harvey Korman, John Vernon, Stephan W. Burns

Synopsis: In the fourth installment of the "Herbie" series of Volkswagen Bug fantasies, the magical car has lost a lot of its sheen as it is retreaded into a journey through Central America. D.J. (Charles Martin Smith) and Pete (Stephan W. Burns) want to enter their supernatural car in a special Read More

The Stunt Man

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: Adapted from Paul Brodeur's novel, Richard Rush's story of a Machiavellian movie director and his accidental employee takes a darkly comic look at movie reality vs. "real" reality. Running from the law, Vietnam vet Cameron (Steve Railsback) stumbles on a movie shoot just in time to interfere with Read More

Nobody's Perfekt

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Alex Karras, Robert Klein, Susan Clark, Paul Stewart

Synopsis: This comedy was filmed in Miami and follows the exploits of three frustrated misanthropes who try to sue the city after their car hits a pothole and ends up totaled. Unfortunately, the city has protected itself with a little loophole. When legal means fail, the three try other methods. ~ Sandra Read More

Part Time Wife

Voices

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Amy Irving, Alex Rocco, Viveca Lindfors, Barry Miller

Synopsis: Amy Irving plays a deaf woman whose ambition is to become a professional dancer in this drama. Rosemarie Lemon is unhappy with the support she is getting from her family for her dreams. She meets a sensitive truck driver, Drew Rothman (Michael Ontkean), and they become lovers. Rothman's family is Read More

The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

Actors: Charles Grodin

Synopsis: While the made-for-TV The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank sure looks like a pilot film, nobody involved would fess up to this. Based on the writings of humorist Erma Bombeck, the film stars Carol Burnett and Charles Grodin as an upwardly mobile New York couple who move themselves and Read More

A Question of Guilt

Synopsis: Loosely based on a true story this sudsy made-for-television courtroom drama tells the story of a rather hedonistic young divorcee who is accused of killing her own child. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rabbit Test

Actors: Billy Crystal, Joan Prather, Alex Rocco, Doris Roberts

Synopsis: In this, Joan Rivers' first attempt at film direction, a young virgin male (Billy Crystal) is engaged to be married when he finds out he is pregnant! Using the film as a vehicle for her acerbic humor, director Rivers may as well be on stage, for interspersed throughout this questionable plot is an Read More

The Rockford Files: The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Rocky's somewhat eccentric friend T.T. Flowers (Strother Martin) has been forced off his "Freedom" property, declared mentally incomptetent, and placed in a sanitarium called Horizon's Crest. It's all the handiwork of crooked land developer Jack Muellard Read More

Fire Sale

Actors: Alan Arkin, Rob Reiner, Vincent Gardenia, Sid Caesar, Anjanette Comer, Kay Medford

Synopsis: Alan Arkin directed and starred in this anarchic comedy. Benny Fikus (Vincent Gardenia) is the owner of a department store that's on its last legs, with his nebbishy son Russell (Rob Reiner) serving as his second-in-command. Benny's bother Ezra (Arkin) used to work with him at the store, but he Read More

The Godfather Saga

Actors: Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, James Caan, John Cazale

Synopsis: Originally screened as a mini-series on the NBC television network, this epic-length feature combines the entirety of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II with 15 minutes of outtakes from the two films, recutting the material into chronological order (clarifying the complex structure of The Read More

The Rockford Files: The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) infiltrates a sanitarium called Horizon's Crest to rescue T.T. Flowers (Strother Martin), who is being victimized by evil land developer Jack Muellard (Scott Brady). But though Muellard is temporarily stopped in his tracks, T.T. still isn't Read More

79 Park Avenue

Actors: Barbara Barrie

Synopsis: The formal title for this TV mini-series was Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue, just in case you might mistake it for William Makepeace Thackeray's 79 Park Avenue. Originally presented in three parts, this adaptation of the Robbins best-seller stars Lesley Ann Warren as Marja Fludjicki, a Read More

Hustling

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Hustling is a made-for-television film about a New York reporter (Lee Remick) who investigates the dangerous world of prostitution and becomes friends with a tough, abused hooker (Jill Clayburgh). ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Hearts of the West

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin

Synopsis: Hearts of the West (British title: Hollywood Cowboy) stars Jeff Bridges as Lewis Tater, a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey or Peter B. Kyne. He arrives in Nevada to seek out the correspondence school that has "graduated" him. After learning that he's Read More

Kojak: Close Cover Before Killing

Synopsis: Investigating a case of arson, Lt. Kojak (Telly Savalas) finds that he has another unsolved murder on his docket. The perpetrator is the owner of a plastics firm, who has torched his business for the insurance--and in true "two birds with one stone" fashion, has simultaneously endeavored to cover Read More

A Woman for All Men

Synopsis: In this drama, a greedy millionaire takes a Las Vegas showgirl for his new bride and no one in his family is terribly pleased. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Blue Knight

Synopsis: Based on a Joseph Wambaugh story, this police drama centers on tough, aging cop Bumper Morgan's search for the man who killed his partner. His investigation leads him deep into the bowels of the drug world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins

Actors: Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman, Mackenzie Phillips, Alex Rocco, Charles Martin Smith

Synopsis: The "Gold Dust Twins" are two L.A. gals who kidnap a likable-loser type who's a driving instructor (Alan Arkin) and force him to take them from Los Angeles to New Orleans. On the way they run into action of all sorts, and by the time they get to the Bayou state, the three have bonded as buddies. Read More

Freebie and the Bean

Actors: Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Jack Kruschen, Mike Kellin

Synopsis: Freebie (James Caan) and the Bean (