Bill SageFilmography

Tennessee

Actors: Adam Rothenberg, Ethan Peck, Mariah Carey, Lance Reddick, Bill Sage

Synopsis: A waitress and her two brothers set out in search of their estranged father hoping that he will aid in saving their leukemia-stricken sibling in this road-bound family drama produced by Lee Daniels (Monster's Ball) and starring singer Mariah Carey. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The New Twenty

Actors: Nicole Bilderback, Colin Fickes, Andrew Lin, Ryan Locke, Tom Sadoski

Synopsis: A circle of friends who met in college struggle to come to terms with their successes, their failures, and their ambitions as they approach their 30th birthdays in this independent drama. Yuppie Julie (Nicole Bilderback) has been scaling the corporate ladder with skill and enthusiasm since Read More

One Night

Actors: Kevin Cahoon, Christian Campbell, Robert Clohessy, Bill Dawes, Holley Fain

Synopsis: Fifteen New Yorkers head out for a night on the town that has unexpected consequences in this independent ensemble drama. Larry (Bill Sage) is a record company executive who is dating Mia (Maria Zyrianova), a beautiful model several years his junior, though he's also been sleeping with Emily Read More

If I Didn't Care

Actors: Bill Sage, Roy Scheider, Susan Misner, Noelle Beck, Ronald Guttman

Synopsis: Sibling filmmakers Benjamin and Orson Cummings write, produce, and direct this Hitchcock-influenced noir thriller starring Bill Sage as Davis Meyers, a trophy husband who lives in the Hamptons and resorts to infidelity and murder as a means of producing a suitable heir. By the time local Read More

Mysterious Skin

Actors: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeff Licon, Bill Sage

Synopsis: Two young men are haunted by similar events from their past, though the effects manifest themselves in very different ways, in this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the summer of 1981, Brian (George Webster) and Neil (Chase Ellison) are both eight years old and playing on Read More

The Girl From Monday

Actors: Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd, Tatiana Abracos, Leo Fitzpatrick, DJ Mendel

Synopsis: Independent auteur Hal Hartley wrote and directed this satirical exercise in what he calls "fake science fiction." In the near future, following a violent overthrow of the American government, the United States has come under the rule of the MMM, a Multi-Media Monopoly which runs the country as a Read More

Heavens Fall

Actors: Timothy Hutton, David Strathairn, Leelee Sobieski, Anthony Mackie

Synopsis: The tragic court case that forever altered the course of American jurisprudence is dramatized for the screen in this courtroom docudrama starring Timothy Hutton, David Straithairn, Leelee Sobieski, Anthomy Mack and Bill Sage. The year is 1931, and nine black hobos have been accused of raping two Read More

Sin

Actors: Kerry Washington, Ving Rhames, Gary Oldman, Brian Cox

Synopsis: It's often said that in order to catch a killer, you must first truly understand the motivations that drive their madness. The old saying is true, and retired homicide detective Eddie Burns (Ving Rhames) is about go to some of the darkest depths imaginable in a desperate bid to rescue his sister Read More

The Maldonado Miracle

Actors: Peter Fonda, Mare Winningham, Rubén Blades, Eddy Martin, Bill Sage

Synopsis: Actress Salma Hayek makes her directorial debut with this heartwarming drama based on the novel by Theodore Taylor. José (Eddy Martin) is a young boy from Mexico who sneaks into the United States in search of his father, a migrant worker. On the run with an injured arm and looking for a place to Read More

Evenhand

Actors: Bill Sage, Bill Dawes, Io Tillett Wright, Irene Pena, Hector Garcia

Synopsis: Joseph Pierson's Evenhand is a film about a pair of police officers in a fictional but realistic Texas town. Francis (Bill Dawes) and Morning (Bill Sage) have the same goals as officers of the law, but their personalities and their approaches to their work are very different. Francis richly Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Hunger Artist

Synopsis: The talents of the CSI team are stretched to the limit when the unidentified and partially decomposed body of a woman is found stuffed in a shopping cart just off the Vegas freeway. It is clear that the woman's face was deliberately and methodically disfigured -- in fact, she may have been thrust Read More

Stray Dogs

Actors: Guinevere Turner, Bill Sage, Dot-Marie Jones, Ryan Kelley, Zach Gray

Synopsis: A woman looking for some familial support as she tries to break things off with her no-good husband finds that her sister-in-law's interest in her troubles is more that just friendly in this drama. Darla Carter (Guinevere Turner) is a woman living in the rural south with her husband, Myers (Bill Read More

Double Parked

Actors: P.J. Brown, Anthony de Sando, Noah Fleiss, Eileen Galindo, Michelle Hurd

Synopsis: Stephen Kinsella directs this family comedy-drama about a single mom looking for a job and her son's slow slide to the streets. Rita Ronaldi (Callie Thorne) ekes out a living as a waitress until she is unceremoniously canned. Tough-minded but unskilled, she faces an uphill fight to find a job to Read More

Urbania

Actors: Dan Futterman, Alan Cumming, Matt Keeslar, Josh Hamilton, Lothaire Bluteau

Synopsis: One of the most talked-about movies of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, this film, directed by Jon Shear, recalls the edgy, aggressively-political qualities of early '90s queer cinema such as Poison (1991) and Swoon (1991) -- and throws in a few nods to Martin Scorsese's late-night New York City Read More

American Psycho

Actors: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis

Synopsis: Bret Easton Ellis' dark and violent satire of America in the 1980s is brought to the screen in this unsettling drama with black comic overtones. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father's firm. Bateman is the Read More

Boiler Room

Actors: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan

Synopsis: In this drama that explores greed and corruption in American business, Giovanni Ribisi plays Seth Davis, an intelligent and ambitious college dropout who runs a casino in his apartment. Eager to show his father that he can succeed, Seth lands a job with a small stock brokerage firm. He is given a Read More

The Atlantis Conspiracy

Rock the Boat

Actors: Bill Sage, Paul Calderon

Synopsis: While it takes strength and determination to compete in the TransPacific Yacht Race, a 2,200 mile voyage from California to Hawaii, Rock the Boat records the journey of one crew in this race who display a different kind of bravery -- all 10 men on board are HIV-positive, and are battling not only Read More

Strange World

Actors: Tim Guinee, Kristin Lehman, Saundra Quarterman, Vivian Wu, Michael Moriarty

Synopsis: A science-fiction drama produced for ABC, Strange World concerns Paul Turner (Tim Guinee), a one-time Army scientist who was one of a battalion exposed to a dangerous but unidentified chemical while serving in the Gulf War in 1991. While the other members of his platoon died, Turner has instead Read More

Roberta

Actors: Kevin Corrigan, Daisy Rojas, Amy Ryan, Bill Sage, Brian Tarantina

Synopsis: Jonathan (Kevin Corrigan) is a computer expert who is a bit shy and lonely, though he's recently begun courting a schoolteacher named Judy (Amy Ryan). One night, Jonathan encounters a Latina prostitute named Roberta (Daisy Rojas), whom he's convinced he knew as a child. Jonathan is immediately Read More

Somewhere in the City

Actors: Sandra Bernhard, Ornella Muti, Robert John Burke, Peter Stormare, Bai Ling

Synopsis: Iranian-born director Ramin Niami loosely adapted the Maxim Gorky play The Lower Depths for this ensemble character study set in modern-day New York City's Lower East Side. Sandra Bernhard stars as Betty, a remarkably introverted and lonely therapist hungering for a male companion. In her Read More

High Art

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Patricia Clarkson, Tammy Grimes, Gabriel Mann

Synopsis: Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed this lesbian-themed drama, winner of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival's Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. Ambitious photography magazine associate editor Syd (Radha Mitchell) has a ho-hum relationship with James (Gabriel Mann). Investigating a ceiling leak, she Read More

Getting Off

Actors: Christine Harnos, Brooke Smith, Bill Sage, David Marshall Grant, Amy Ryan

Synopsis: Julie A. Lynch made her directorial debut with this low-budget indie, an AIDS drama set in 1992 NYC, where three women -- promiscuous artist Josie Ray (Christine Harnos), stand-up comic Jennifer Sharp (Brooke Smith), and MBA student Elaine Devlin (Amy Ryan) -- learn their old college chum Chris Read More

Cost of Living

Actors: Edie Falco, James Villemaire, Andrew Lowery, Bill Sage, Gareth Williams

Synopsis: An award-winner at the 1997 AFI/Los Angeles Film Festival, this low-budget drama follows the misadventures of drifter Billie (Edie Falco), who ditches her motorcycle and picks up a car. The vehicle is hit by another car, and she can't collect from the other driver (Andrew Lowery). Instead, she Read More

Boys

Actors: Winona Ryder, Lukas Haas, Skeet Ulrich, John C. Reilly, Bill Sage

Synopsis: Boys is a coming-of-age tale about an addled prep school student who nurses a woman back to health after an accident and becomes involved in her cryptic past. John Baker Jr. (Lukas Haas) is a tormented high school senior outcast who's weary of his upper-crust boarding school life and dreads his Read More

If Lucy Fell

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Eric Schaeffer, Ben Stiller, Elle MacPherson, James Rebhorn

Synopsis: This vanity project from writer, director, and star Eric Schaeffer is a romantic comedy about a pair of New Yorkers with a suicide pact. Joe MacGonaughgill (Schaeffer) is a painter and teacher who has been spying for years on Jane (Elle Macpherson), the gorgeous woman who lives across the alley Read More

Affair Play

Actors: Derek de Lint, Lysette Anthony, Bill Sage, Val Valentine

The Perez Family

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

Flirt

Actors: Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Parker Posey, Dwight Ewell, Dominik Bender, Geno Lechner, Miho Nikaido

Synopsis: A lover, an ultimatum, a phone call, and a gun: these elements are found in each segment of Hal Hartley's Flirt, an experimental comedy-drama that essentially repeats the same story three times. But while the basic narrative remains the same -- a congenital flirt must decide whether or not to Read More

Babylon: La Paura e la Migliore Amica dell'Uomo

Actors: Bill Sage, Paolo Lorimer, Valeria Milillo, Sophie Bernhard, Andrea Prodan

Synopsis: This Italian drama, set in the industrial areas of Turin, examines the effects of infidelity. It is summer, but that is not why the rebellious factory worker Francesco is upset. He is hot under the collar because his wife Carla slept with Charles, a hotel detective, during her recent visit to New Read More

Rift

Actors: Bill Sage

Synopsis: In this psychological thriller, a songwriter seeks a psychiatrist's help after his obsession with his best friend's wife turns to chilling fantasies of murder. The poor composer is so consumed by thoughts of her that he begins losing his ability to discern reality from fantasy. Unfortunately, the Read More

Simple Men

Actors: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn, Martin Donovan, Mark Chandler Bailey

Synopsis: A pair of brothers dodge the law while trying to locate their long-lost father in this third feature from independent New York filmmaker Hal Hartley. Robert John Burke stars as Bill McCabe, a failed computer thief who's just been doublecrossed by his girlfriend and partner. Vowing revenge on the Read More

Trust

Actors: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson, John A. MacKay, Edie Falco

Synopsis: The unlikely relationship between a pregnant high school student and a brooding electronics repairman lies at the center of this droll comedy from writer-director Hal Hartley. Intelligent but unconventional, Maria (Adrienne Shelly) has more to worry about than her pregnancy, as her expectant state Read More

Laws of Gravity

Actors: Peter Greene, Adam Trese, Arabella Field, Paul Schulze

Synopsis: Either loved or hated by the critics, this is the debut film by the 29-year-old writer/director, Nick Gomez. A three-day slice-of-life in Brooklyn done in the cinema verite style, this is a violent movie portraying two ruthless thieves and their friends involved in illegal activities--following Read More

Theory of Achievement

Actors: Elina Löwensohn, Bill Sage

Synopsis: Theory of Achievement, a short film by director Hal Hartley, is a droll look at a group of young Brooklynites grappling with the great issues: aesthetics, romance, and real estate. Bob, a broke, aspiring writer, takes advantage of his girlfriend's absence to enter the real estate business. He Read More

The Unbelievable Truth

Actors: Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke, Julia McNeal, Gary Sauer

Synopsis: Writer-director Hal Hartley's first feature -- shot in less than 12 days in his backyard for a mere $200,000 -- is a dry and dark comedy about the dangerous undercurrents that exist below the surface of normal middle class existence. Over the credits, Josh (Robert Burke), a man garbed in black, is Read More

Sidewalk Stories

Actors: Charles Lane, Nicole Alysia, Sandye Wilson, Darnell Williams, Trula Hoosier

Synopsis: African-American mime artist Charles Lane directed and starred in this ultra-low-budget film. Lane plays a Chaplinesque homeless individual with a talent for sidewalk chalk art, who finds himself caring for an abandoned baby. The child's father has been killed in a robbery, so Lane begins a long Read More