Christopher Cain Filmography

Born:: October 29, 1943 in Sioux Falls, SD
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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September Dawn

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jon Voight, Trent Ford, Tamara Hope, Jon Gries, Taylor Handley

Synopsis: Director Christopher Cain takes an up-close look at the devastation wrought by religious fanaticism with this romantic drama set against the backdrop of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. As a wagon train of westward-bound settlers makes its way across southern Utah, a confrontation with a Read More

8/24/07
Slater Meets Her HERO Jean-Michel Cousteau

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Slater Jewell-Kemker, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Dr. Richard Murphy

2006
A Father's Choice

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Still in their infancy when their parents were divorced, Kelly and Chris McClain (Michelle Trachtenberg) grew up in the city with her mother, while their cowboy father Charlie (Peter Strauss) remained in the wide open spaces. When their mom is murdered, the girls are court-ordered to live with Read More

2000
Gone Fishin'

Crew: Director

Actors: Joe Pesci, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, Lynn Whitfield, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: Just how much trouble can two guys get into while trying to catch some fish? Joe Waters (Joe Pesci) and Gus Green (Danny Glover) are two guys from New Jersey who've known each other since childhood; they've always been friends, and they've always been inept to the point of posing a threat to life Read More

1997
The Amazing Panda Adventure

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephen Lang, Ryan Slater, Huang Fei

Synopsis: This family adventure concerns Ryan (Ryan Slater), a ten-year-old boy who has traveled to China with his father, a scientist working with a wildlife preserve dedicated to the rescue and protection of giant pandas, who are quickly becoming an endangered species in their native land. However, the Read More

1995
The Next Karate Kid

Crew: Director

Actors: Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Hilary Swank, Michael Ironside, Constance Towers, Chris Conrad

Synopsis: Karate Kid, Part 4 is better known by its release title, The Next Karate Kid. The sole holdover from the first three KK flicks is Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, once more cast as janitor/martial arts maven Miyagi Yakuga. This time, his pupil is orphaned 17-year-old Hilary Swank, the granddaughter Read More

1994
Pure Country

Crew: Director

Actors: George Strait, Lesley Ann Warren, Isabel Glasser, Kyle Chandler, John Doe

Synopsis: The big-screen debut of country singer George Strait is a familiar tale of a star returning to his roots, a route traveled the same year by John Mellencamp in Falling From Grace (1992). Strait plays Dusty Chandler, one of the hottest performers in country music. Dusty feels that his elaborate Read More

10/23/92
Terror in Copper Valley

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The small town of Copper Valley is invaded by a mysterious stranger in an ominous-looking black car. School bus driver Joanna Cassidy looks on in horror as the stranger kidnaps her little daughter right before her eyes. With a mixture of trepidation and determination, Joanna goes off on her own to Read More

1990
Wheels of Terror

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A demonic black sedan terrorizes a single mother driving a school bus in her small Arizona town in this action thriller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Young Guns

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Producer

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Palance

Synopsis: In this Western based loosely on actual events and people, Emilio Estevez stars as William H. Bonney (aka Billy the Kid). Sought for a petty crime in Lincoln County, Billy is taken in by John Tunstall (Terrence Stamp), a British ranch owner seeking to make it in the cattle business. Tunstall Read More

8/12/88
The Principal

Crew: Director

Actors: James Belushi, Louis Gossett, Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Wright, J.J. Cohen, Esai Morales

Synopsis: An impulsive but determined white principal brings order and respect to a predominantly African-American and Latino high school in this comedy-drama from the director of Young Guns and That Was Then, This Is Now. Rick Latimer (James Belushi), a high-school teacher, is in the process of a divorce Read More

9/18/87
Where the River Runs Black

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Durning, Alessandro Rabelo, Ajay Naidu, Peter Horton, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: This drama concerns the clash of two worlds in the person of a young boy. The small boy (Alessandro Rabelo) is the offspring of a missionary who died before the he was born, and a Native American who is later killed by white prospectors. Father O'Reilly (Charles Durning) comes to hear about the Read More

9/19/86
That Was Then... This Is Now

Crew: Director

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Craig Sheffer, Kim Delaney, Jill Schoelen, Barbara Babcock

Synopsis: Emilio Estevez adapted S.E. Hinton's teen coming-of-age novel for the screen in this film adaptation directed by Christopher Cain. Estevez also takes the lead role of Mark Jennings, a troubled teenager who has been living with his best friend Byron Douglas (Craig Sheffer) and his mother (Barbara Babcock Read More

1985
The Stone Boy

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Duvall, Jason Presson, Frederic Forrest, Glenn Close, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: In this tightly-wound, perceptive film, a young farm boy kills his older brother when a shotgun accidentally goes off then retreats into a shell of silence as his family seems to react against him. Arnold (Jason Presson) and his brother get up at the crack of dawn to go duck hunting, but their Read More

1984
Wo Die Grünen Ameisen Träumen

Actors: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett, Norman Kaye

Synopsis: In a slightly padded but well-acted and relevant drama, an Australian mining company and a group of aboriginals go to court to settle a dispute over sacred land that the company wants to mine. When the Ayers Mining Company sets out to begin construction of its mine with bulldozers and Read More

1984
Force on Thunder Mountain

Synopsis: While on a family trip up into the mountains, a man and his son encounter some strange things as a result of an ancient Indian tale. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Grand Jury

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Davison, Meredith Mac Rae, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Grand Jury is a minor theatrical-release melodrama with all the trappings of a made-for-TV movie. Meredith MacRae and Bruce Davison play a wide-eyed young couple who fall for an insurance scam. When they attempt to go to court to recoup their losses, they become involved in a wide-ranging Read More

1977
Sixth and Main

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Roddy McDowall, Beverly Garland, Leo Penn, Joe Maross

Synopsis: Sixth and Main is the Los Angeles street corner where on any given day you might find itinerant local "character" John Doe (Leslie Nielsen). Elegant authoress Monica (Beverly Garland) discovers that the supposedly derelict Doe has in his possession several manuscripts, all brilliantly written. Read More

1977
Elmer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this family-oriented wilderness adventure, a young boy survives a plane crash but is temporarily blinded, making it impossible for him to find his way through the woods. Fortunately, a friendly and lost hound dog shows up to help him survive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Emergency!: The Professor

Synopsis: The Rampart emergency staff can't understand why Federal agents are so closely hovering over one of their patients (Hedley Mattingly), an apparent schizophrenic. Other problems vexing the staffers this week include an urgent summons to a fireboat, which yields surprising results; a possible Read More

1973