Casey Sander Filmography

Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend

Actors: Kellie Martin, Clarence Williams III, Nina Siemaszko, Casey Sander, Julianna McCarthy

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. To improve business, Sam hosts a book signing with three celebrity "whodunit" authors in attendance. One of the three Read More

Mystery Woman: Game Time

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. This time out, Sam scores a coup when she manages to get reclusive mystery writer Donald Fiske (William Katt) to make a Read More

Mystery Woman: Vision of Murder

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which specializes in mystery novels. As is her habit, Sam ends up playing amateur detective herself, this time at a fancy health spa called Drummonds. Read More

Mystery Woman: Snapshot

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. The game is afoot when Sam's friend Barbara Sommers (Patricia McCormack, a dyed-in-the-wool conspiracy buff, suspects Read More

Mystery Woman: Sing Me Murder

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. On this occasion, Sam hopes to bring new customers into her establishment by inviting the once famous folk-rock trio of Read More

The Trail To Hope Rose

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Lou Diamond Phillips, Lee Majors, Marina Black, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: An epic-Western in the grand tradition, the made-for-cable The Trail to Hope Rose stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Keenan Deerfield, a half-Indian outlaw just released from prison. Determined to start life anew, Keenan takes a grueling rock-mining job in a town controlled by the odious Driggers Read More

Tucker [TV Series]

Actors: Eli Marienthal, Katey Sagal, Noelle Beck, Casey Sander

Synopsis: A teenage boy has his life turned upside down (usually once a week) in this half-hour situation comedy. 14-year-old Tucker Pierce (Eli Marienthal) is already having enough trouble dealing with school, the onset of adolescence, and his body's new habit of betraying his feelings about girls when his Read More

Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story

Actors: Crystal Bernard, Esai Morales, Casey Sander

Synopsis: Ellen Hart Pena was a woman who seemingly had it all -- she was beautiful, a respected athlete, and the wife of a successful politician, Federico Pena -- the mayor of Denver, CO, before being named U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Clinton. But Ellen also had a dangerous secret Read More

Hijacked: Flight 285

Actors: James Brolin, Perry King, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall

Synopsis: While being escorted to prison from Phoenix to New York, crazed killer Peter Cronin (Anthony Michael Hall) hijacks a commercial jet in flight with the help of accomplices. Holding the 200 passengers and the crew members hostage, Cronin forces the plane to land in Dallas, then demands another, more Read More

Crosscut

Actors: Costas Mandylor, Megan Gallagher, George Murdock, Casey Sander, Allen Cutler

Synopsis: During a big barroom brawl, petty crook Martin accidentally shoots the son of a crime lord and flees to the relative safety of a remote northern California logging community in this taut drama. In the little town, he takes over an abandoned hunting cabin, changes his name and begins working as a Read More

Summertime Switch

Actors: Jason Weaver, Rider Strong, Richard Moll, Soleil Moon Frye, Casey Sander

Synopsis: In this adventure, a poor street urchin and a poor-little-rich boy who look exactly alike meet and decide to switch roles. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rio Diablo

Actors: Kenny Rogers, Travis Tritt

Synopsis: Stars of country music fill out the cast of this made-for-TV western. Kenny Rogers plays a bounty hunter who sets off with his newlywed partner (Travis Tritt) to track down the kidnappers who ran off with Tritt's wife (Laura Harring). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Grace Under Fire [TV Series]

Actors: Brett Butler, Julie White, Dave Thomas, Sam Horrigan, Casey Sander, Kaitlin Cullum, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse

Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story

Synopsis: Do not confuse this fact-based feature with the more tongue-in-cheek cable TV version, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom. This one looks seriously at the story of a Texas mother who was willing to kill to ensure her daughter's place on the cheerleading Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Synopsis: As The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air returns for a third season, rap-happy homeboy Will (Will Smith) returns to the lavish LA home of his relatives, the Bankses, after spending the summer in his old South Philly 'hood. Will has brought with him a new hip-hop hairstyle and wardrobe that thrills his Read More

Hunter: The Grab

Synopsis: Al Novak (Robin Thomas), ex-husband of officer Chris Novak (Robin Thomas), goes undercover to flush out a counterfeiter known as The Dutchman. When the counterfeiter's courier is killed, Hunter (Fred Dryer) discovers that the American Secret Service has a vested interest in the case. Chris' Read More

Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor

Actors: Lee Majors, Lisa Hartman, Peter Scolari, John Laughlin, Kim Miyori

Synopsis: The whole story is in the title of this made-for-TV heartstopper. Based on a true 1988 incident, the film details the breakout of a fire in a Los Angeles high-rise. The LA fire department does what it can, but their ladder equipment falls short of the 37-story requirement. Lee Majors, Lisa Hartman Read More

Nightmare

Actors: Victoria Principal, Danielle Harris, Jonathan Banks, Paul Sorvino, Gregg Henry

Synopsis: Single parent Victoria Principal is justifiably driven into a blind rage when her 11-year-old daughter (Danielle Harris) is molested. Thanks to legal loopholes, the girl's attacker is set free. Victoria swears vengeance, and intends to get it by any means possible, despite the level-headed Read More

For the Very First Time

Actors: Cheryl Pollak

Synopsis: The "first time" usually refers to romance in TV movies of this nature. Corin Nemic is an impressionable young Jewish kid who falls hard for girl next door Cheryl Pollak. Ah, but this is San Antonio in the early 1960s, and Pollak is Catholic. Before you can say "Bridget Loves Bernie" (or even Read More

Double-Crossed

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Based on the true-life adventures of the late Drug Enforcement Agency spy Barry Seal, this exciting espionage adventure chronicles the events that lead up to his death in 1984. Before coming to work for the DEA, smooth-talking Seal (Dennis Hopper) had been a drug smuggler for the notorious Read More

Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys

Synopsis: This biopic chronicles the rapid rise to fame of the enduringly popular California rock band. Though it was a fast ascent, it was not without problems and each of the band members suffered personal problems. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Predator 2

Actors: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton

Synopsis: This special effects-heavy science fiction sequel moves the action from the first film's Amazon forest to the urban jungle of L.A. Danny Glover stars as Lt. Mike Harrigan, an LAPD detective baffled by his latest case, the ritualistic slaughter of several drug dealers by a devastating killer who Read More

Spaced Invaders

Actors: Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards, J.J. Anderson, Gregg Berger

Synopsis: This slapstick parody of space movies chronicles the riotous exploits of a group of dim-bulbed, misguided aliens under the mistaken impression that they are supposed to invade the Earth after they hear a rebroadcast of Orson Welles' notorious "War of the Worlds" one Halloween night. Thinking they Read More

Money, Power, Murder

Synopsis: As a reporter investigates the disappearance of an anchorwoman, his important characters are being killed by an "avenging angel." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Punchline

Actors: Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Mark Rydell, Kim Greist, Damon Wayans

Synopsis: Sally Field goes the Roseanne route in Punchline. Field plays a housewife and mother who suddenly develops the urge to be a comedienne. Her comic instincts are on target, but her timing and delivery stinks. Tom Hanks, a stand-up comic with a few years' experience under his belt, offers to teach Field Read More

Dragnet

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul

Synopsis: Dan Aykroyd must have practiced for months to perfect his Jack Webb inflections for Dragnet. Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz's directorial debut (also written by Mankiewicz, along with Aykroyd, and Alan Zweibel) is a gentle spoof of the legendary '50s television police drama -- pitting '50s Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Out of Sync

Synopsis: Looking forward to a passionate reunion with his erstwhile LA-based fiancee Cynthia Farrell (Dana Delany), Magnum (Tom Selleck) is torn away at the last minute by a pressing business matter. Cynthia is understandably put out to discover that Magnum has been hired by a sexy actress named Andrea Read More

Ratboy

Actors: Sondra Locke, Robert Townsend, Christopher Hewett, Larry Hankin, Sidney Lassick

Synopsis: This drama follows an unlikely "ratboy" (S.L. Baird) after he is discovered living in a makeshift shelter in a garbage dump. Along comes Nikki Morrison (Sondra Locke, also the director) who meets the half-rodent, half-human creature and takes him over. She talks to a Hollywood producer and holds Read More

Stewardess School

Actors: Brett Cullen, Mary Cadorette, Don Most, Sandahl Bergman, Vicki Frederick

Synopsis: Columbia Pictures spent as estimated $8 million dollars on this laughless sex comedy that crashes and burns before ever leaving the ground. Two bumbling boneheads who are kicked out of flying school decide to remain airborne by becoming stewardesses. Bathroom humor, sight gags, and the Read More

Blood Sport

Actors: William Shatner, Heather Locklear, James Darren, Don Murray, Kim Miyori

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1975 TV movie Bloodsport, this 1986 production was a spin-off of the recently cancelled police drama series T.J. Hooker. William Shatner is back as the aforementioned Hooker, a cop on special assignment to Hawaii (where the film was lensed). Accompanied by longtime Read More

Moving Violations

Actors: Neal Israel, John Murray, Jennifer Tilly, James Keach, Brian Backer, Ned Eisenberg

Synopsis: In this flat attempt at comedy by the director of the Police Academy series, Neal Israel, a brash Dana Cannon (John Murray, brother of Bill) lands in a crooked re-education school for delinquent drivers, run by Deputy Halik (James Keach, brother of Stacey). The objective is to lord it over the Read More

Streets of Justice

Synopsis: In this drama, an angry, bereaved husband decides to get his own kind of justice after the man who killed his wife and son is freed on a legal technicality. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Body Double

Actors: Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, Melanie Griffith, Deborah Shelton, Guy Boyd

Synopsis: In Body Double, director Brian DePalma pays homage to the Alfred Hitchcock movies Vertigo and Rear Window, adding a few grotesque touches all his own. Craig Wasson plays Jake, a struggling actor who keeps losing jobs because of his claustrophobia. To make matters worse, his girlfriend has walked Read More