Arthur A. Seidelman Filmography

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze

Crew: Director

Actors: Scott Glenn, Harvey Keitel

Synopsis: Bridges of Madison County scribe Robert James Waller's latest novel comes to the screen with the action thriller Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, now available in this home-video release. Starring Harvey Keitel (Bad Lieutenant, Reservoir Dogs) and Scott Glenn (Training Day, Naked City: Justice with a Bullet Read More

By Dawn's Early Light

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Crenna, Chris Olivero, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: This made-for-cable Western stars Richard Crenna as an aging rancher whose daughter has a son she can no longer control. The boy is sent to live with his grandfather, and as the youngster learns the importance of discipline and hard work, the rancher learns the importance of the bonds of family. Read More

Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kime

Crew: Director

Actors: Mary Tyler Moore, Jean Stapleton, Gabriel Olds

Synopsis: In one of the most startling examples of "playing against type" in TV history, beloved sitcom icon Mary Tyler Moore stars as Sante Chamber Kimes, a woman who was accurately described during her trial for murder as "...a sociopath of unremitting violence, the most remorseless degenerate ever to Read More

Sex & Mrs. X

Crew: Director

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Linda Hamilton, Paolo Seganti

Synopsis: A reporter learns some lessons about love from a woman who has made it her business in this made-for-TV comedy-drama. Joanna Scott (Linda Hamilton) is a woman who thought she had the perfect life -- a successful career as a journalist and a strong marriage with her husband, Dale (Stewart Bick) Read More

The Runaway

Crew: Director

Actors: Dean Cain, Pat Hingle, Debbi Morgan

Synopsis: The scene is a small, racially segregated Georgia town in the summer of 1949. After filling their heads with the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, two teenagers -- a black kid named Luke (Cody Newton) and his white pal Sonny (Dwayne McLaughlin) -- embark upon a rafting excursion. Before Read More

Walking Across Egypt

Crew: Director

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Mark Hamill, Judge Reinhold, Gail O'Grady

Synopsis: Ellen Burstyn stars in this warm family drama. Mattie (Burstyn) is an aging southern belle who realizes that she's getting too old to go on living in a house. After an odd encounter with the local dogcatcher Lamar (Mark Hamill), Mattie befriends Lamar's bad-egg nephew, Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas Read More

Grace and Glorie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Adapted from a play by Tom Ziegler, the made-for-TV Grace and Glorie stars Gena Rowlands and Diane Lane as the title characters. Disenchanted with her empty existence in New York City, stylish but lonely Gloria "Glorie" Greenwood heads to the country, where she becomes a hospice worker in the Read More

Miracle in the Woods

Crew: Director

Actors: Meredith Baxter, Patricia Heaton, Della Reese, Anna Chlumsky

Synopsis: When Wanda (Patricia Heaton) and Sarah's (Meredith Baxter) mother dies and the estranged sisters inherit the family pecan grove, their conflicting plans for the future of the property are complicated by the appearance of a stranger claiming the land as her own in Arthur Allan Seidelman's Read More

Deep Family Secrets

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Country-western singer JoAnne Chadway (Molly Gross) is distraught when her mother Renee (Angie Dickinson)--and even more so since the disappearance occurred amidst bitter domestic strife with JoAnne's powerful attorney father Clay Chadway (Richard Crenna). When Clay inevitably becomes a suspect in Read More

Harvest of Fire

Crew: Director

Actors: Lolita Davidovich, Patty Duke, J.A. Preston, Jean Louisa Kelly, Tom Aldredge

Synopsis: At first glance, the made-for-TV Harvest of Fire would seem to be a gender-switch variation on the theatrical feature Witness (1985), but it is much more than that. Assigned to investigate the possibility of a hate crime when three barns are burned in an Amish community in Iowa, FBI agent Sally Read More

Trapped in Space

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Wagner, Kay Lenz, Jack Coleman

Synopsis: Adapted from a story by esteemed author Arthur C. Clarke, this claustrophobic sci-fi thriller begins happily enough as crew members aboard the Venus-bound freighter Venture happily cavort with one another. Sex seems to be their primary form of entertainment. But their voyage becomes deadly serious Read More

Rescue Me

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Stephen Dorff, Ami Dolenz, Peter DeLuise, William Lucking

Synopsis: Rescue Me is an agreeably daffy spoof of adventure films. Nerdy high school camera aficionado (Stephen Dorff) worships teen queen (Ami Dolenz) from afar. He fantasizes about performing some sort of noble act to impress her. But when she's kidnapped before his very eyes, he's too busy taking Read More

Dying to Remember

Crew: Director

Actors: Melissa Gilbert

Synopsis: Fashion designer Melissa Gilbert is Dying to Remember in this USA Cable Network potboiler. Plagued by vivid nightmares, the fashion designer begins to believe that she's suffering from repressed-memory syndrome. It gets better: she might be conjuring up memories of a previous life. Whatever the Read More

Body Language

Crew: Director

Actors: Edward Albert, Heather Locklear, Linda Purl, James Acheson

Synopsis: Heather Locklear plays a businesswoman who's moving ever upward on the executive ladder. Alas, though lucky in her job, she's unlucky in love. Locklear's secretary Linda Purl takes it upon herself to offer helpful advice on matters of the heart. But it turns out-and here's the BIG SURPRISE-that Purl Read More

The Kid Who Loved Christmas

Crew: Director

Actors: Trent Cameron

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama--Sammy Davis, Jr.'s last--stars Trent Cameron as a young orphan who must fight against social workers in order to remain with his adoptive father, a widowed jazzman. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

False Witness

Crew: Director

Actors: Phylicia Rashad

Synopsis: Cosby Show regular Phylicia Rashad stars as a New Orleans assistant DA in the made-for-TV False Witness. Philip Michael Thomas (Miami Vice) plays Rashad's associate--and also her lover. Polarized by sexual stereotyping, Rashad and Thomas clash over the case of the vicious slashing of a talk-show Read More

Little Girl Lost

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When a couple tries to adopt a child, they run into red tape because the foster child asserts that her natural father molested her. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Addicted to His Love - Sisterhood

Crew: Director

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Linda Purl

Synopsis: When this seriocomic TV film first aired March 28, 1988, it was titled Addicted to His Love. Evidently to pacify certain feminist factions, the film was rechristened Sisterhood for syndication. Either way, this is the story of a smooth lothario, played by Barry Bostwick. In the course of 97 Read More

A Friendship in Vienna

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Set in Vienna during the German occupation, this made-for-cable television drama centers on the friendship between a Jewish girl and the young Christian who helps her escape. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The People Across the Lake

Crew: Director

Actors: Valerie Harper, Gerald McRaney, Tammy Lauren, Dorothy Lyman, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: In this thriller, city slickers chuck their careers, pull up stakes and take up residence at a peaceful lakeside community to escape the urban rat race. Unfortunately, they soon discover that things are not as peaceful as they seem when the husband finds a mutilated corpse floating in the lake. Read More

Glory Years

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When the funds for their 20-year high school reunion is put into the hands of three friends, a gambling trip to Las Vegas could prove to be disastrous. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Caller

Crew: Director

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Madolyn Smith

Synopsis: Malcolm McDowell and Madolyn Smith star in this unusual science fiction thriller. A young woman alone in a remote cabin expects friends for dinner, but instead a man who has car trouble knocks at her door and asks her help in calling for a tow truck. She sees him the next day in the village and Read More

Poker Alice

Crew: Director

Actors: George Hamilton, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: We've been told that Poker Alice, a Boston-bred lady of means who managed a wild-west gambling hall and bordello in the 1870s, was based on a real person. She certainly seems real as portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor in this made-for-TV film (Taylor's first). After winning her house of ill repute in a Read More

Strange Voices

Crew: Director

Actors: Valerie Harper, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: College girl Nancy McKeon, up until recently the picture of normality, suddenly displays signs of schizophrenia. She hears voices, commits sudden acts of violence, and switches moods without warning. McKeon's parents Valerie Harper and Stephen Macht are at a loss to contend with the sudden change Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder by Appointment Only

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) attends a cosmetics convention, where her nephew Grady (Michael Horton) has landed a job with supremely bitchy perfume manufacturer Lila Lee Amberson (Jayne Meadows). Also present is Liz Gordon (Ann Dusenberry), who had been one of Jessica's most promising writing Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Menace Anyone?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In Boston, Jessica agrees to serve as honorary chairperson at a charity tennis tournament where her former student Carol (Linda Hamilton) is one of the players. It so happens that Carol is the girlfriend of a much-hated tennis star, who ends up being blown to bits by a bomb planted in Carol's car. Read More

Sin of Innocence

Crew: Director

Actors: Megan Follows, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: While we're tempted to label the TV-movie Sin of Innocence as Brady Bunch: The Lost Episode, the film transcends all kidding with its intelligent, tasteful approach to its story material. Dermot Mulroney plays a teenager whose widowed father (Bill Bixby) marries a divorcee (Dee Wallace Read More

Kate's Secret

Crew: Director

Actors: Georgann Johnson, Ben Masters

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, Meredith Baxter plays Kate, a homemaker who suffers from the eating disorder bulimia. On the surface, slim, attractive Kate's life seems perfect. Her husband, Jack (Ben Masters), is a successful lawyer, while her daughter, Becky, a Junior Girl Scout, adores her. But Read More

Magnum, P.I.: I Never Wanted to Go to France, Anyway

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) dons a clown suit to pose as a roustabout with the "Inky Gilbert Travelling Carnival and Midway". An old friend of Higgins (John Hillerman), the aforementioned Inky (Clive Revill) has been plagued by a number of suspicious accidents, suggesting that someone is trying to force Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder in the Afternoon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Up-and-coming actress Nita Cochran (Alice Krige), who happens to be the niece of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), lands a plum role on a popular TV soap opera. Nita has been cast as a serial murderer--a fact that proves most unfortunate when an actual murder occurs at the TV studio. The victim Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder at the Oasis

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to a fashionable desert resort for a reunion with her college roommate Peggy (Piper Laurie). Unfortunately, the happiness of the occasion is compromised by the presence of Peggy's ex-husband, nasty showbiz star Johnny Shannon (Ed Ames. In fact, Johnny has made so Read More

Murder, She Wrote: School for Scandal

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury arrives at the campus of Crenshaw University to receive an honorary degree. Among the faculty members is Professor Joselyn Clover (Polly Bergen), whose daughter Daphne (Mary Kate McGeehan) has penned a notoriously lurid best-selling novel. When the campus "stud" is Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Little Games

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While playing a video game called "Dungeon Master", Magnum manages to mess up the computerized security system at Robin's Nest. Enter security expert Krista Villaroch (Jenny Agutter), who is hired to get the system up and running in time for a jewelry exhibit being held at the estate. The Read More

Living Nightmare

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Alfieri, Nathalie Nell, Mercedes McCambridge, Ruth Roman, Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis: In this psychological horror movie, an art student begins to seriously question his sanity after a terrifying nightmare recurs over a long period of time. In the dream, his twin, who died at birth is trying to kill him. The dream eventually becomes so intense that the young man is barely able to Read More

Marisol

Crew: Director

Brainwaves

Crew: Director

Actors: Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Vera Miles, Percy Rodrigues, Tony Curtis

Synopsis: When his wife Suzanna Love is seriously injured in a car accident, Keir Dullea agrees to a radical and revolutionary surgical procedure to save the life of the comatose woman. Love undergoes a brain transplant-and, miracle of miracles, survives. Unfortunately, the brain donor was a murdered woman Read More

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This is a filmed theatrical performance of one of Shakespeare's most famous tales of avarice and insanity. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

She Drinks a Little

Crew: Director

Actors: Amanda Wyss, Bonnie Bartlett, Michael Le Clair, Anna Gray Garduno, Elliot Jaffe

Synopsis: This is one of a handful of ABC Afterschool Special presentations produced to heighten awareness of Ala-Teen, an organization for the teenaged children of alcoholics. Although 16-year-old Cindy (Amanda Wyss) is all too aware that her mom is a problem drinker, the girl refuses to admit the fact and Read More

A Matter of Time

Crew: Director

Actors: Karlene Crockett, Rosemary Forsyth, Kate Zentall, Wayne Heffley, Carrie Freeman

Synopsis: A young Rob Lowe plays a supporting role in this Emmy Award-winning ABC Afterschool Special. The main focus, however, is on high-school senior Lisl Gilbert (Karlene Crockett), who must reconcile herself to her mother's terminal cancer. In the agonizing months that follow the initial prognosis of Read More

Schoolboy Father

Crew: Director

Actors: Rob Lowe, Dana Plato, Sharon Spelman, Nancy McKeon, Patti Jerome

Synopsis: In one of his earliest TV appearances, Rob Lowe stars in this ABC Afterschool Special as Charles Elderbury, a teenager whose summer girlfriend, Daisy (Dana Plato), has become pregnant. Once the child is born (an event which Charles learns about only by reading the newspaper birth notices), the Read More

Which Mother Is Mine?

Crew: Director

Actors: Melissa Sue Anderson, Marion Ross, Lee Kessler, Eric Scott, Virginia Capers

Synopsis: Season eight of the ABC Afterschool Special series gets under way with this powerful dramatization of an all-too-common dilemma. For the past six years, teenager Alexandria "Alex" Benton (Melissa Sue Anderson) has lived happily with her foster family, who hopes to adopt her. Suddenly and Read More

A Special Gift

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephen Austin, Bill Sorrells, Alice Hirson, Kene Holliday, Ike Eisenmann

Synopsis: The central character in this ABC Afterschool Special is 14-year-old farm boy Peter Harris (Stephen Austin). To his friends and family, Peter is a hero because of his skill as a basketball player. But Peter would rather give up athletics to become a ballet dancer, an ambition that his Read More

Children of Rage

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Alfieri, Helmut Griem, Olga Georges-Picot, Cyril Cusack, Simon Ward

Synopsis: An Israeli doctor (Helmut Griem) is working with guerrillas at an enclave when the Palestinians attempt to blow up a dance-hall. The doctor is stunned to discover an old friend among the terrorist dead. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Hercules in New York

Crew: Director

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, Deborah Loomis, James Karen, Mark Tendler

Synopsis: Every movie star has to start somewhere, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, then little-known outside of body building circles, made his screen debut in this comic variation on the "sword and sandal" epics popular in the 1950's and '60's. Hercules (Schwarzenegger) has grown tired of his life on Mount Read More