Barry Miller Filmography

Flawless

Actors: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller, Christopher Bauer, Skipp Sudduth

Synopsis: Can a homophobic former rent-a-cop find happiness learning to sing with a man in a dress? That's the big question in this comedy-drama. A retired security guard (Robert De Niro), deeply conservative and set in his ways, falls victim to a debilitating stroke. His doctors prescribe an extensive Read More

Ally McBeal: Happy Birthday, Baby

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Love Affair

Actors: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn, Garry Shandling, Chloe Webb

Synopsis: The 1939 Irene Dunne-Charles Boyer romance Love Affair, remade with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in 1957 as An Affair to Remember, became a vehicle for real-life couple Warren Beatty and Annette Bening in this 1994 rendition. The well-worn story remains the same, as a man and a woman, both engaged Read More

The Pickle

Actors: Danny Aiello, Dyan Cannon, Clotilde Courau, Shelley Winters, Barry Miller, Jerry Stiller, Chris Penn, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: Paul Mazursky directed this comedy, which blends a broad satire of the film industry with a thoughtful tale of a middle-aged man looking back on his life's failures. Harry Stone (Danny Aiello) is a film director who desperately needs a hit -- so desperately that he gets talked into directing an Read More

Love at Large

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

Equal Justice

The Last Temptation of Christ

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie, Verna Bloom, Andre Gregory

Synopsis: Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzaki's novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting Jesus, gradually coming to accept His divinity and the inexorability of His ultimate fate. The much-maligned sex scene with Mary Read More

The Sicilian

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Barbara Sukowa, Richard Bauer

Synopsis: Adapted from Mario Puzo's novel, The Sicilian is an attempt to chronicle the life and times of Mafia leader, patriot and real-life Robin Hood Salvatore Giuliano, the infamous bandit who, together with his rag-tag band of guerillas, attempted to liberate 1940s Sicily from Italian rule and make it Read More

Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8

Synopsis: The docudrama Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8, relates the story of the trial that resulted from the riots that broke out in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention. The majority of the dialogue has been taken directly from court records and archival footage. Michael Lembeck plays the Read More

Peggy Sue Got Married

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Maureen O'Sullivan, Helen Hunt, Jim Carrey, John Carradine

Synopsis: During her 25th high school class reunion, middle-aged Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) tries to forget her marital problems with husband Charlie (Nicolas Cage) by renewing old friendships. Wondering if she made the right decisions in her life, Peggy Sue gets a chance to try again when, zapped into a Read More

The Journey of Natty Gann

Actors: Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise, Scatman Crothers, Barry Miller

Synopsis: Disney's The Journey of Natty Gann stars Meredith Salenger in the title role. During the Depression, Natty's father (Ray Wise) takes a job in a Northwestern lumber camp, leaving his daughter behind in Chicago with the promise that he'll send for her when he's put together enough money. Unwilling Read More

The Roommate

Actors: Lance Guest, Barry Miller

Synopsis: Roommate, which appeared on PBS in the "American Playhouse" series, involves an unlikely pair of college roommates sharing a dorm room in a Midwestern university in 1952. One's a goody-goody all-American type and the other's a politically active rebel. This real salt-and-pepper scenario provides Read More

The Chosen

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller, Hildy Brooks

Synopsis: The overemphatic acting of Robby Benson was something of an endurance test to certain critics of the 1980s, but even these carpers were impressed by Benson's outstanding performance in The Chosen. Set in the Brooklyn of the 1940s, the film elucidates the friendship between two young Jews of Read More

Fame

Actors: Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, Barry Miller, Gene Anthony Ray, Lee Curreri

Synopsis: Fame is set at New York's High School of Performing Arts, where talented teens train for show-business careers. The film concentrates on five of the most gifted students: singer Irene Cara, actors Paul McCrane and Barry Miller, dancer Gene Anthony Ray, and musician Lee Currieri. More so than the Read More

King of America

Synopsis: In this PBS American Playhouse presentation, a Greek immigrant (Michael Welden) battles a notorious labor leader for his honor and freedom. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

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

Saturday Night Fever

Actors: John Travolta, Karen Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape

Synopsis: John Travolta graduated from minor celebrity to superstar with Saturday Night Fever. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Read More

Kojak: Cry for the Kids

Synopsis: Determined to avenge the death of his brother, racketeer Hackford (Jack L. Ging) recruits teenager Billy Sherbak Jr. (Barry Miller) to do his dirty work. Hackford knows that even if Billy is arrested, he will serve a light sentence because he's a minor. After two men are killed, Billy is charged Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Merchants of Death

Synopsis: A tense turf battle between rival street gangs becomes full-fledged warfare after one teen is knifed in a reprisal raid. Caught in the middle is dedicated youth-center worker Eddie Griffin, played by former Mission: Impossible regular Greg Morris. Efforts by Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Read More

Adam-12: Dana Hall

Synopsis: Jo Ann Pflug guest stars as Dana Hall, a new female police officer who is determined to prove her worth in a virtually all-male department. Frustrated that her current assignments do not allow her to demonstrate her intelligence or innate skills, Dana demands that she be given some challenging Read More

Lepke

Actors: Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan, Warren Berlinger, Gianni Russo

Synopsis: Tony Curtis stars as the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting Read More

Brock's Last Case

Synopsis: Richard Widmark is Brock, a salty NYC cop who retires to a small town in California. Brock's plans to become a peaceful orange farmer are interrupted when his Native American ranch hand (Henry Darrow) is accused of murdering the local sheriff. Before long, Brock himself has been appointed sheriff Read More

The Waltons: The Gypsies

Synopsis: Caught in a heavy rainstorm on Walton's Mountain, a family of Gypsies takes refuge it what seems to be a deserted house. Actually, it's the home of the Baldwin sisters, temporarily out of town. The Gypsies' unwitting "break-in" fuels the bigotry of Matt Beckwith (William Bramley), who tries to Read More