Burt Young Filmography

Downtown: A Street Tale

Actors: Joey Dedio, Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: Life on the streets is never easy, and when a disparate group of homeless teens attempt to mold a hopeful future from nothing more than cardboard and food dredged out of the local dumpster a street-smart counselor does her best to ensure that their efforts aren't made in vain. Genevieve Bujold Read More

Go Go Tales

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Bob Hoskins, Matthew Modine, Asia Argento, Riccardo Scamarcio, Lou Doillon

Synopsis: Indie stalwart Abel Ferrara helms this quirky comedy about the goings-on at a downtown cabaret. Willem Defoe stars as Ray Ruby, the proprietor of a joint where all of the dancing girls have big dreams of working their way up to bigger and better things. But trouble begins to brew when money Read More

The Hideout

Actors: Laura Morante, Rita Tushingham, Burt Young, Treat Williams, Yvonne Scio

Synopsis: A woman making her way back to sanity finds herself living in a house with a history of madness in this thriller. Lei (Laura Morante) is a woman who has spent fifteen years in a mental hospital; eager to start her life over again, she's decided to put her life's savings into opening a restaurant. Read More

Rocky Balboa

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Antonio Tarver, Geraldine Hughes, Milo Ventimiglia

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone returns to the director's chair for Rocky Balboa, the fifth sequel to the film that made him a superstar 30 years before. The movie begins with Rocky (Stallone) still mourning the death of his loyal and beloved wife, Adrian, who died three years previously after losing a battle Read More

RevoLOUtion

Actors: Bret Carr

Synopsis: A stuttering street fighter becomes the voice of a new revolution in the first film structured around a shamanistic ritual and designed to have a transformative effect on the viewer by awakening the dormant areas of the mind with the power to fuel transformation and growth. Lou is a determined Read More

Hack!

Synopsis: A group of underachieving college students hoping to boost their GPAs by taking a wildlife field trip are stalked by a chainsaw-wielding serial killer in this low-budget stalk-and-slash laugher featuring Burt Young, William Forsythe, Kane Hodder, and Lochlyn Monro. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Read More

Transamerica

Actors: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Elizabeth Peña, Graham Greene

Synopsis: The first film by Duncan Tucker, Transamerica stars Felicity Huffman as a pre-operative transsexual named Bree (whose given name was Stanley). One week before going under the knife, Bree learns that she fathered a boy who is now 17 and is in trouble with the law. Bree would like to ignore this Read More

Land of Plenty

Actors: Michelle Williams, John Diehl, Shaun Toub, Wendell Pierce, Richard Edson

Synopsis: Wim Wenders drama Land of Plenty stars John Diehl and Michelle Williams as two very different people who are brought together for an unconventional road trip. The film takes place after September 11, 2001, and the main characters are dealing with their grief in very different ways. Paul (Diehl) Read More

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

Actors: Jay Hernandez, Mario Van Peebles, Luis Guzman, Sean Combs, Michael Kelly, Jaclyn DeSantis

Synopsis: In this belated prequel to director Brian De Palma's 1993 crime drama, gangster Carlito Brigante (Jay Hernandez) rises through the ranks of the New York underworld to establish himself as Spanish Harlem's most powerful kingpin. As the intoxication of ultimate power tightens its firm grip on the Read More

Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Hubert Selby, Jr., Lou Reed, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto

Synopsis: Hubert Selby Jr. was a powerful and influential literary figure whose best-known novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, dealt with the dark underside of life in a way that was bleak and often shocking, but also laced with compassion and understanding for the tortured lives of his Read More

Shut Up and Kiss Me!

Actors: Christopher Daniel Barnes, Brad Rowe, Krista Allen, Kristin Richardson

Synopsis: The romantic comedy Shut Up and Kiss Me concerns two best friends, one a stockbroker and the other a slacker surfer, who each fall in love with the perfect girl the same day. The situation gets complicated when the uncle of one of the girls turns out to be a mob boss who is troubled by the thought Read More

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy gets way, way out in this futuristic sci-fi comedy. In the year 2087, the Earth's natural resources have been largely depleted, and an increasingly large number of people have taken up residence on the moon, where the pioneering attitude of the new residents has created a culture not Read More

Kiss the Bride

Actors: Amanda Detmer, Sean Patrick Flanery, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Alyssa Milano

Synopsis: New England native Vanessa Parise makes her directorial debut with the Italian-American wedding movie Kiss the Bride. Danni Sposato (Amanda Detmer) embarks on her wedding plans aided by her mother, Irena (Talia Shire), and grandmother Julia (Frances Bay). Danni's three sisters return home to Rhode Read More

Plan B

Actors: Diane Keaton, Paul Sorvino, Maury Chaykin, Bob Balaban, Burt Young, Natasha Lyonne

Synopsis: When a gentle bookkeeper is forced to act as an assassin in order to pay off her husband's debt to the mob, the bloodless scheme she concocts to keep a clear conscience could cost her more than she bargained for in a blistering crime comedy starring Diane Keaton, Burt Young, Bob Balaban, Paul Sorvino Read More

The Boys of Sunset Ridge

Blue Moon

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Rita Moreno, Alanna Ubach, Brian Vincent, Shawn Elliott

Synopsis: John Gallagher directs this film about magic and the mystery of love. Frank and Maggie (Ben Gazzara and Rita Moreno) have been married longer than either of them can remember. In an effort to revive the spark in their relationship, Maggie persuades Frank to visit their old cabin up in the Read More

Very Mean Men

Actors: Matthew Modine, Martin Landau, Ben Gazzara, Scott Baio, Burt Young

Synopsis: A crime caper that gaily spoofs such antecedents as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and nods its head more than a few times to the work of Quentin Tarantino, Very Mean Men opens in a bar, where a bartender (Matthew Modine) finds himself serving drinks to a tough-looking guy (Martin Landau) he Read More

The Day The Ponies Come Back

Actors: Guillaume Canet, Burt Young, Monica Trombetta, Nick Sandow

Synopsis: A young Frenchman's search for his American father provides the thematic center of this drama by septuagenarian director Jerry Schatzberg. Daniel (Guillaume Canet) repairs brass instruments for a living, and when he journeys to New York to work on some French horns for Paul (Tony Lo Bianco), a Read More

Table One

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Michael Rooker, Luis Guzman, David Herman

Synopsis: Film producer Michael Scott Bregman makes his debut as a writer/director with the straight-to-video crime comedy Table One. Jimmy (Stephen Baldwin), Rowdy (Michael Rooker), Xavier (Luis Guzman), and Norman (David Herman) are four friends struggling to make it in New York City. They pool their Read More

Mickey Blue Eyes

Actors: Hugh Grant, James Caan, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Burt Young, James Fox

Synopsis: Would you believe Hugh Grant as a violent Mafioso from Kansas City? Don't worry if you can't: that's part of the joke in this romantic comedy. Michael Felgate (Hugh Grant) is a British expatriate living in Manhattan who runs a successful auction house dealing in rare and valuable art. When Read More

The Florentine

Actors: Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Jeremy Davies, Tom Sizemore, Luke Perry

Synopsis: The regulars at a shot-and-a-beer bar in a decaying working-class town are the focus of Nick Stagliano's drama The Florentine. Michael Madsen plays Whitey, who owns a bar called The Florentine where most of the guys he knows hang out. His sister Molly (Virginia Madsen, Michael's real life sister) Read More

Loser Love

Actors: Laurel Holloman, Andrew Davoli, Rachel Robinson, Lauren Hutton, Burt Young

Synopsis: A lifelong cycle of abuse reaches a shocking climax for a woman who has suffered at the hands of men for far too long in this emotionally devastating tale from filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée. Ever since she was a little girl, Lily (Laurel Holloman) has been stuck in what seems like a never-ending Read More

One Deadly Road

Actors: William DeMeo, Frank Adonis, Burt Young, Aesha Waks, Anthony Indelicato, Ernest Mingione

Synopsis: William DeMeo, Frank Adonis and Burt Young star in this tough crime drama set in New York. Tony and Vinnie Donitello are two brothers who grew up in a rough section on Bensonhurst, Brooklyn where, as Tony puts it, "everybody wants to be an actor or a gangster." While acting is Tony's first choice Read More

Greener Fields

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Burt Young

Synopsis: In this coming-of-age drama, a teenage boy's world is shaken when his mother is killed. To escape troubling memories, he's sent to Canada to stay with friends of the family. He finds an escape from the sorrow of his loss by joining his school's soccer team; he also finds himself falling for the Read More

The Last Don

Actors: Danny Aiello, Joe Mantegna, Daryl Hannah, Jason Gedrick, Penelope Ann Miller

Synopsis: This crime drama, based on the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo, follows 20 years in the long reign of powerful Mafia kingpin Don Domenico Clericuzio (Danny Aiello). For years, the Clericuzios have been warring with a rival crime family, the Santadios, which is not helped when Domenico's daughter Read More

The Deli

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Judith Malina, Debi Mazar, Mike Starr, Frank Vincent, David Johansen

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hard-luck gambler learns a new commandment: Honor Thy Mother's Lottery Winnings. Johnny Amico (Mike Starr) runs a delicatessen in New York City; regarded as a nice guy by his friends and regular customers, he has a weakness for gambling and is usually in debt. Johnny is Read More

Kicked in the Head

Actors: Kevin Corrigan, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Rapaport, James Woods, Burt Young

Synopsis: Director Matthew Harrison and star Kevin Corrigan co-wrote this offbeat comedy about a man trying to map out a future in the midst of a very confusing present. Redmond (Corrigan) is a self-styled poet and philosopher who frequently ponders his personal journey of self-discovery, which doesn't Read More

Heaven Before I Die

Actors: Joanna Pacula, Omar Sharif, Giancarlo Giannini, Andy Velasquez

Synopsis: In this eccentric comedy, Jacob (Andy Velasquez) is a young man from Israel whose father has long regarded him as a test presented to him by God. Jacob's mind runs on a path all his own, and he has a mild handicap -- his feet stick out at right angles from his legs, giving him a very curious walk. Read More

The Undertaker's Wedding

Actors: Adrien Brody, Jeff Wincott, Kari Wuhrer, Burt Young, Holly Gagnier

Synopsis: The mother of undertaker Mario Bellini (Adrien Brody) would like to see him married, but the ladies aren't especially entranced by his funeral parlor -- where profits are soaring due to an ongoing mob war. To bring peace, Alberto (Burt Young), boss of the Strachitella family, has his gun-wielding Read More

Law & Order: Mad Dog

Synopsis: No sooner has serial rapist Lewis Darnell (Burt Young) been released on parole than a young woman is assaulted and murdered. Assistant D.A. McCoy (Sam Waterston) is determined to connect Darnell with this most recent outrage and to put him behind bars permanently. Unfortunately, McCoy's zeal leads Read More

Crooked Lines

Before Women Had Wings

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Oprah Winfrey, Tina Majorino, Julia Stiles, John Savage

Synopsis: Connie May Fowler adapted her own novel for this dark drama about a dysfunctional family in northern rural Florida during the '60s. Alcoholic Billy (John Savage) reflects on his country-music career that never happened and beats his wife Glory Marie (Ellen Barkin), also a drunk. Grown-up son Hank (William Lee Scott Read More

Hit and Run

Actors: Kari Wuhrer, Burt Young

Synopsis: In this dark thriller, a man finds himself caught up in a vortex of lies and murder after he has a run-in with a streetwalker. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Red Blooded 2

Actors: Kari Wuhrer, Burt Young

The Mouse

Synopsis: This off-beat sports comedy follows the misadventures of a professional loser. Bruce "the Mouse" Strauss is proud that he holds the unofficial record for getting knocked out in boxing rings on every continent except Antarctica. He is a lousy boxer; he knows it and is happy to amuse audiences by Read More

North Star

Actors: James Caan, Christopher Lambert, Catherine McCormack, Burt Young

Synopsis: The lust for gold provides the motivation in this outdoor adventure. Set in turn-of-the-century Nome, Alaska, it centers on the struggle between an Inuit who comes to the area to claim a gold-rich but sacred land tract and a greedy local businessman who wants it for himself. Desperate enough for Read More

Hot Blooded

Actors: Kari Wuhrer, Kristoffer Winters

Synopsis: In this action thriller, Trent, a college student, is driving home for Thanksgiving and pulls into a truck stop to fill up his tank. While gassing up, he sees a group of men trying to rape a young woman. Trent intervenes and before long Miya, the would-be crime victim, is expressing her gratitude Read More

Columbo: Undercover

Actors: Peter Falk, Ed Begley, Jr., Burt Young, Shera Danese, Harrison Page

Synopsis: In this episode of the long-running detective series, Lt. Columbo delves seven years into the past to look into a lucrative bank robbery. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Double Deception

Synopsis: In classic noir tradition, the protagonist of the made-for-TV Double Deception is hard-boiled private eye John Kane (James Russo), who provides the first-person narration for the deliciously convoluted plotline. Kane knew that former call girl Pamela Sparrow (Alice Krige) was a keg of dynamite the Read More

Excessive Force

Actors: Thomas Ian Griffith, Lance Henriksen, James Earl Jones, Charlotte Lewis, Tony Todd

Synopsis: Martial arts hero Thomas Ian Griffith wrote, produced, and starred in this action thriller. Terry McCain (Griffith) is a Chicago police officer who is bent on revenge after his partners are killed by Mafia gunmen. McCain knows that he won't be able to get the justice he demands within the system Read More

Bright Angel

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard, Valerie Perrine, Bill Pullman, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: This contemporary western stars Dermot Mulroney as a Montana teenager whose sanity is being eroded by his parent's domestic squabbles. Linking up with Lili Taylor, a Wyoming-bound transient with a checkered history, Mulroney embarks upon an odyssey of self-discovery. Unfortunately, he persists in Read More

That Teen Show 16: Teen Crime

A Family Matter

Synopsis: Originally titled Vendetta: Secrets of a Mafia Bride, this 2-part TV movie stars supermodel Carol Alt as Nancy, the ward of Mafia don Frank Latella (Eli Wallach). Part One gets off to an explosive start when Nancy witnesses her father's murder. Raised by Latella, our heroine lives for the day that Read More

Americano Rosso

Actors: Burt Young, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Milillo, Sabrina Ferilli, Orsetta De Rossi

Synopsis: George Maniago (Burt Young) is a homely Italian-American undertaker who has come to Italy in the 1930s to seek a beautiful, big-breasted Italian virgin to be his bride. To assist him in his search, not least because his ability to speak Italian is limited, he hires Vittorio Benvegnu (Fabrizio Bentivoglio Read More

Rocky V

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Sage Stallone, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Touted upon its release as the finale of the Rocky saga, this fifth entry in the long-running series of sports dramas reunites star Sylvester Stallone with John G. Avildsen, director of the Oscar-winning original. Stallone is Rocky Balboa, suffering from career-ending brain damage as a result of Read More

Backstreet Dreams

Actors: Brooke Shields, Jason O'Malley, Sherilyn Fenn, Tony Dean Fields, Burt Young

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the oft-filmed Fannie Hurst yarn Back Street, Backstreet Dreams is a contemporary drama of Humanity vs. the Streets. Jason O'Malley plays a New York hoodlum who doesn't trust his wife Sherilyn Fenn as far as he can throw her (and for good reason). The only person O'Malley Read More

Diving in

Actors: Matt Adler, Kristy Swanson, Burt Young, Matt Lattanzi, Yolanda Jilot

Synopsis: In this sports drama, a diver has all the right stuff to make it to the Olympics. There is only one catch--he is terrified of heights. Fortunately his lovely coach is there to patiently help him overcome his terror and go for the gold. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Betsy's Wedding

Actors: Alan Alda, Madeline Kahn, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper (Molly Ringwald) and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell(Dylan Walsh), just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie (Alan Alda), a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP Read More

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Actors: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Hubert Selby's controversial 1964 cult novel Last Exit To Brooklyn is adapted to the big screen by director Ulrich Edel in this drama. The story is set in the early 1950s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blighted waterfront town of boarded-up storefronts and striking factory workers. Harry Black (Stephen Lang Read More

Club Fed

Actors: Jennifer Delora

Synopsis: The FBI wants to shut down a luxurious minimum-security prison, so a high-placed official (Joseph Campanella) sends an undercover agent (Lance Kinsey) to root out any sign of crime. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Ornella Muti, Faye Dunaway, Michael Bacall, Burt Young

Synopsis: Based on the novel by John Fante, this film follows the trials of the Bandini family as they try to struggle through hard times in 1920s Colorado. Out of work and in need of money, Svevo Bandini (Joe Mantegna) tries to scrounge up the money his family needs to make it through the winter, while Read More

Beverly Hills Brats

Actors: Burt Young, Martin Sheen, Terry Moore, Peter Billingsley, Ramon Sheen

Synopsis: In this comedy, a wealthy teen convinces a burglar to kidnap him so he can get his family's wayward attention. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Blood Red

Actors: Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young, Carlin Glynn

Synopsis: Siblings Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts appear in this old-fashioned saga about oppressed Sicilian wine-growers in 19th-century California. Giancarlo Giannini stars as Sebastian Collogero, the robust Italian patriarch who is battling with railroad mogul William Bradford Berrigan (Dennis Hopper) to Read More

Going Overboard

Actors: Adam Sandler

Synopsis: Two years before he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, Adam Sandler starred in this comedy as Shecky Moskowitz, who wants to get a job as a comedian on a cruise ship, but when that job is taken, signs on as a waiter instead, hoping fate will lend a hand. The cast also includes Burt Young, Peter Berg Read More

Back to School

Actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, M. Emmet Walsh, Robert Downey, Jr.

Synopsis: Self-made wealthy guy Rodney Dangerfield decides he needs a better education--and also to spend some time away from his cheating new wife. Dangerfield joins his son Keith Gordon at college. Dad hopes to gain his son's respect (isn't that always Dangerfield's motivation?), while son tries to fit in Read More

Rocky IV

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, Dolph Lundgren

Synopsis: The third sequel to Sylvester Stallone's boxing blockbuster combines the ringside sports melodrama of the previous installments with the Cold War patriotism of the star/director's other motion picture series of the 1980s, the Rambo saga. Stallone is back as Rocky Balboa, the heavyweight champion Read More

A Summer to Remember

Synopsis: The friendship between a deaf boy and an orangutan skilled in sign language provides the basis of this heartwarming made-for-TV drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Once Upon a Time in America

Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their Read More

Over the Brooklyn Bridge

Actors: Elliott Gould, Margaux Hemingway, Sid Caesar, Burt Young, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: A man is torn between true love and the lure of fine dining in this romantic comedy. Alby Sherman (Elliott Gould) was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he runs a coffee shop. Alby has dreams of doing bigger and better things, and he works up the courage to ask his rich Uncle Benjamin (Sid Caesar) Read More

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Actors: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan

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