Brad Leland Filmography

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Hancock

Actors: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Eddie Marsan, Johnny Galecki

Synopsis: A hard-drinking lush finds himself thrust into superhero mode in director Peter Berg's unconventional look at the private life of a crime-fighter. Will Smith stars as the embittered do-gooder whose lifestyle is more akin to a rock star than a role model, and who has grown as disillusioned with his Read More

7/2/08
The Return

Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Adam Scott, Kate Beahan, J.C. MacKenzie, Erinn Allison, Sam Shepard

Synopsis: A self-assured Midwestern girl finds her confidence gradually crumbling as a barrage of terrifying visions prompt her to investigate a brutal murder in a supernatural thriller directed by Asif Kapadia and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Joanna Mills (Gellar) is a successful sales representative Read More

11/10/06
The Ringer

Actors: Johnny Knoxville, Brian Cox, Katherine Heigl, Jed Rees, Bill Chott

Synopsis: A guy trying to do the right thing ends up taking part in one of the most morally dubious con games in history in this comedy. Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville) is an office drone who wants to move up the corporate ladder, but when he asks his boss for a promotion, it comes with a condition -- Steve Read More

12/23/05
Friday Night Lights

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund

Synopsis: H.G. Bissinger's best-selling true-life account of a few months in the life of a high-school football team comes to the screen in this adaptation written and directed by Peter Berg. Odessa, TX, is an oil town in the western part of the state that's home to the Permian High School Panthers, the Read More

10/8/04
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Actors: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour

Synopsis: One of the most infamous horror films of the 1970s is revisited in this remake produced by action-spectacle maven Michael Bay. In the summer of 1973, four teenagers -- Erin (Jessica Biel), Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), Kemper (Eric Balfour), and Andy (Mike Vogel) -- are driving through Texas on a road Read More

10/17/03
World Without Waves

Actors: Will Foster Stewart, Tara Bast, Jeff Kober, Brad Leland, Steven Bruton

Synopsis: A television producer with a strange affinity for electricity experiences love, lust, and self-deception before taking one final shot at redemption in director J. Mitchell Johnson's strange tale of electromagnetic hypersensitivity. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2002
The Underneath

Actors: Peter Gallagher, Alison Elliott, William Fichtner, Adam Trese, Joe Don Baker

Synopsis: A remake of the classic Robert Siodmak film noir Criss Cross, Steven Soderbergh's The Underneath follows much the same plot and narrative arc of the original, but expands the possibilities of its thriller structure to also explore the complexities and insecurities at the heart of modern Read More

1995
Texas Justice

Synopsis: It's Reversal of Fortune meets Jerry Springer in this made-for-TV miniseries, which concerns the true-life tale of a Texas oil magnate on trial for conspiring to murder his brassy ex-wife -- and for very successfully doing away with her lover and daughter. Texas Justice stars Peter Strauss as Read More

1995
Witness to the Execution

Actors: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Len Cariou, George Newbern, Dee Wallace

Synopsis: Like the feature film Network (1976), this made-for-television drama scathingly satirizes an amoral, avaricious media. The story is set in 1999, a time the pay-per-view television industry is in a tailspin. It seems with over 500 available channels, audiences have become jaded with movies and Read More

1994
Love and a .45

Actors: Gil Bellows, Renée Zellweger, Rory Cochrane, Jeffrey Combs, Jace Alexander

Synopsis: Two young lovers go on the run from the law after a convenience store robbery goes bad in this road movie. Love and a .45 centers on philosophically inclined thief Watty Watts (Gil Bellows), who believes in a little robbery but not real violence. An ill-advised collaboration with a crazed Read More

1994
Ruby

Actors: Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn, Arliss Howard, Tobin Bell, David Duchovny

Synopsis: Here's a fictionalized account of Jack Ruby's perspective of the events leading up to his assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald. Danny Aiello appears convincingly as the nightclub-owner Ruby who (according to this telling) points the finger at an FBI conspiracy as the force behind the Kennedy Read More

3/27/92
An American Story

Synopsis: This fact-based drama centers on a sextet of WW II soldiers who are hailed as heroes upon their return to their hometown in Texas. Trouble follows when the vets unite to overthrow the town's corrupt politicians. They make a plan, but it is nearly derailed by the group leader's social-climbing wife Read More

1992
Revenge on the Highway

Actors: Stacy Keach, Lisa Banes, Sandahl Bergman, Thomas Wilson Brown, Matthew C. Hotsinpiller

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a trucker exacts his revenge upon the druggy driver that killed his son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Trial: The Price of Passion, Part 1

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Beverly D'Angelo, Peter Strauss

Synopsis: Based on Clifford Irving's novel Trial, this 2-part TV movie is set amongst the Texas elite. Peter Strauss plays Warren Blackburn, a brilliant but discredited trial lawyer. His career seems due for redemption when judge Louise Parker (Jill Clayburgh), formerly Blackburn's bitterest foe, appoints Read More

1992
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruthless Reporter

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason takes the case for a TV reporter falsely accused of killing the station's ego-maniacal anchorman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Stranger at My Door

Synopsis: The only relationship the 1991 made-for-TV Stranger at My Door bears to the 1956 theatrical film of the same name is in having a fugitive as a main character--actually, two fugitives. One of the runaways is Markie Post, a rich city woman escaping from her homicidal husband. She takes refuge in the Read More

1991
A Seduction in Travis County

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Coyote, Jean Smart, Matt Clark, Don Hood

Synopsis: "Saying 'no' to Melanie could lead to murder--and more." Thus did the CBS Network publicity department lure the viewer into watching the made-for-TV Seduction in Travis County. Based liberally on fact, the film stars Lesley Ann Warren as an accused murderer. Peter Coyote is the dynamic, married Read More

1991
Blaze

Actors: Jack David Harris, Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin, Gailard Sartain, Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis: Blaze is a comic-strip re-telling of the curious late-1950s relationship between famed striptease artist Blaze Starr (Lolita Davidovitch) and Lousiana governor Earl Long (played in gorgeously flamboyant fashion by Paul Newman). Their romance is counterbalanced with the story of Long's efforts to Read More

12/13/89
Shy People

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton, Merritt Butrick, John Philbin

Synopsis: Writer Jill Clayburgh wants to remove her coke-addicted daughter Martha Plimpton from the corruptive environs of Manhattan. When assigned to write an article about family trees, Clayburgh, with daughter in tow, heads to the bayous of Louisiana, there to seek out an elusive great-uncle--and, it is Read More

12/4/87
Square Dance

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Jane Alexander, Winona Ryder, Rob Lowe, Deborah Richter

Synopsis: Gemma (Winona Ryder) is a young teen raised by her crusty grandfather Dillard (Jason Robards) in this drama of a young woman's coming of age. When she goes to the city to spend the summer with her estranged mother Juanella (Jane Alexander), she falls for Rory (Rob Lowe), a rural rube of Read More

2/20/87
Winners Take All

Actors: Don Michael Paul, Kathleen York, Robert Krantz, Deborah Richter, Peter DeLuise

Synopsis: After Billy Robinson (Robert Krantz) finds success as a professional motorcycle racer, he returns to his hometown where he faces adulation and jealousy as a result of his success. When a local motorcycle race is put together, Billy must compete against his best friend (Don Michael Paul) for the Read More

1987
Undercover

Actors: David Neidorf, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Corbin, David Harris, Kathleen Wilhoite

Synopsis: When a police officer is killed while investigating the drug trade at a South Carolina high school, his partner, Sheffield (David Neidorf), decides to get even. With the help of officers La Rue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Sgt. Irwin Lee (Barry Corbin), Sheffield goes undercover to discover the Read More

1987