Craig ShefferFilmography

Love Lies Bleeding

Actors: Christian Slater

Synopsis: Christian Slater comes back for another round of that old True Romance in this tale of two young lovers who set out on the lam after discovering a substantial cache of dirty money. Duke is a hapless Iraq War veteran who just can't seem to pull his life together after returning home. While his love Read More

American Crude

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Ron Livingston, Rob Schneider, Cynthia M. Watros, Amanda Detmer, Eric Stonestreet

Synopsis: Actor Craig Sheffer makes his feature directorial debut with this ensemble comedy featuring Ron Livingston, Rob Schneider, Jennifer Esposito, and Michael Clarke Duncan, and following a harried group of characters through twenty-four hours in a typical Los Angeles day. Quite a bit can happen over Read More

Cut Off

Actors: Amanda Brooks, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Malcolm McDowell, Kurupt

Synopsis: Abruptly cut off from the family fortune by her millionaire tycoon father, a young girl used to the life of luxury sets out on a Bonnie and Clyde style crime spree with her ne'er do well boyfriend in this action film featuring Malcolm McDowell, Anne Archer, and Faye Dunaway. Patricia Barton Read More

One Tree Hill: Season 03

Actors: Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Hilarie Burton, Barry Corbin, Paul Johansson

Find Love

Actors: Alexie Gilmore, Christian Camargo

One Tree Hill: Season 02

Actors: Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Moira Kelly, Hilarie Burton, Barbara Alyn Woods

Synopsis:
The big news that broke during the finale of One Tree Hill's first season -- namely, the marriage between wealthy, arrogant high school basketball star Nathan Scott (James Lafferty) and Haley James (Bethany Joy Lenz), the lifelong friend of Nathan's half brother, Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) Read More

The Second Front

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, Lana Litwak, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: A brilliant German Jewish scientist developing a weapon of incalculable power is courted by intelligence services from England, Germany, and Russia in this World War II-era thriller starring Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, and Ron Perlman. Nicky Raus is a scientist who may hold the key to winning a Read More

Truth Be Told

Synopsis: The truth doesn't come easy, and when the truth involves the mob, the police, and the vengeful survivor of a gangland massacre, it comes screaming in a hail of bullets in this tough-as-nails crime drama from King's Ransom director Jeff Byrd. Left for dead by the mob and then used by police to draw Read More

Wes Craven Presents Dracula II: Ascension

Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Craig Sheffer, Jason London, Diane Neal, Stephen Billington

Synopsis: The burned corpse of Dracula (Stephen Billington) is revived by a wheelchair-bound scientist, Lowell (Craig Sheffer), and his devoted students in an effort to cure Lowell of a fatal disease. They chain the demon to a slab at the bottom of an abandoned indoor swimming pool and begin their Read More

One Tree Hill: Season 01

Actors: Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Hilarie Burton, Bethany Joy Lenz, Paul Johansson, Sophia Bush, Barry Corbin, Craig Sheffer, Moira Kelly

Synopsis: Growing up on the proverbial "opposite sides of the tracks" does not prevent wealthy high-school basketball star Nathan (James Lafferty) and less-than-wealthy but equally athletic Lucas (Chad Michael Murray) from becoming teammates, competitors, and occasional kindred spirits as One Tree Hill Read More

Cabin Pressure

Synopsis: The wealthy designer of the world's first fully computer-automated jetliner summarily fires one of his engineers, a disgruntled computer hacker. In retaliation, the engineer "kidnaps" the high tech jetliner from a hidden location on the ground, and threatens to destroy the plane during its maiden Read More

Fastlane [TV Series]

Actors: Peter Facinelli, Bill Bellamy, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Jennifer Sky, Craig Sheffer

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by such wall-to-wall action flicks as The Fast and the Furious and XXX, the endearingly mindless TV series Fastlane chronicled the adventures of two tough, hard-driving undercover L.A. cops. Answerable only to their leather-clad superior Billie Chambers (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) Read More

Maze

Actors: Rob Morrow, Laura Linney, Craig Sheffer, Rose Gregorio, Robert Hogan

Synopsis: An artist with Tourette's syndrome and an aversion to romance falls for his best friend's girl in this sometimes comic drama. Lyle Maze (Rob Morrow), a successful painter who's also starting to explore sculpture, relies on emotional armor a foot thick to protect him from other people. In addition Read More

Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal

Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Craig Sheffer, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: The third time's the charm for terror in the sky in this action-packed drama. Rock superstar Slade Craven has decided to hang up his rock & roll shoes and has planned something very special for his final show -- instead of a typical concert in some sports arena, he'll play a set aboard a 747 jumbo Read More

The Ritual

Actors: Jennifer Grey, Craig Sheffer, Tim Curry, Daniel Lapaine, Kristen Wilson, Gabriel Casseus

Synopsis: An unemployed New York doctor with a suspended license and few prospects for the future travels to Jamaica to care for the ailing brother of a wealthy landowner, only to make a horrifying discovery regarding the ailing man in director Avi Nesher's contemporary re-imagining of Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie Read More

Deadly Little Secrets

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Dylan Walsh, Dina Meyer, Michele Hicks

Synopsis: Fiona MacKenzie's revenge thriller Deadly Little Secrets begins with the death by steroid overdose of a famous sports star. The athlete's brother, Cole Chamberlain, begins his own investigation and discovers Gordon Childs (Craig Sheffer), a doctor who has been performing lethal experiments with Read More

Killer Buzz

Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Rutger Hauer, Craig Sheffer, David Naughton, Jason Brooks

Synopsis: While covering a story in a remote Brazilian rainforest, television journalist Ann Bauer (Gabrielle Anwar) stumbles all too literally on greedy Dr. North's (David Naughton) secret experiment: Raise genetically mutated bees and sell their venom's healing properties as medicine. But the bees contain Read More

Hellraiser: Inferno

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Nicholas Turturro

Synopsis: Supernatural villain Pinhead finds himself on the wrong side of the law in this, the fifth film in the Hellraiser franchise. Joseph (Craig Sheffer) is a detective with the LAPD who one morning discovers he's no longer living in California -- he's been exiled to Hades, and the only way to escape is Read More

Deep Core

Actors: Craig Sheffer, James Russo

Synopsis: Ego-driven industrialist Alan Morrisey (Harry VanGorkum) has paid to develop the ultimate mining machine -- a nearly invincible vehicle that uses laser energy to burrow through anything. But the machine's creator, Brian Goodman (Craig Sheffer), knows that it is too good at what it does and Read More

Merlin: The Return

Actors: Rik Mayall, Patrick Bergin, Craig Sheffer, Tia Carrere, Adrian Paul

Synopsis: The greatest magician in the world isn't about to let a little thing like being over 1,500 years old stop him from saving England in this comic adventure. Miss Maxwell (Tia Carrere), an unscrupulous scientist from the United States, has arrived in England with a plan to use the manipulation of Read More

From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff

Actors: Gregory Peck, Mala Powers, John Berry, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: Michael Chekhov and George Shdanoff were Russian expatriates who came to Hollywood and became two of the best known and most influential acting coaches in the film industry; Chekhov was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in Spellbound, and as a teacher he and his associate Shdanoff helped Read More

The Fall

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Hélène de Fougerolles, Jürgen Prochnow, Kim Huffman, Sandor Teri

Synopsis: Location filming in Budapest adds to the realism of this tense thriller. An expatriate American author (Craig Sheffer) is held hostage by a disturbed woman carrying a razor and willing to use it (Helen de Fougerolles). The wordsmith must quickly decide if the woman is a violent psychotic or if her Read More

Turbulence II: Fear of Flying

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Tom Berenger, Jennifer Beals

Synopsis: In this action-packed drama, a group of people who have completed a therapy program to overcome their severe fear of flying celebrate with a group flight to L.A. However, they soon discover that there are perfectly good reasons to be afraid of airliners -- a group of terrorists highjack the jet Read More

Net Worth

Actors: Michael T. Weiss, Todd Field, Craig Sheffer, Daniel Baldwin

Synopsis: Four pals take on their world of high finance in a new and unusual way in this comedy-drama. Woody (Craig Sheffer), Robert (Daniel Baldwin), Michael (Michael Winslow), and Thad (Todd Field) are four close friends in their early thirties who have always felt a strong sense of competition. However Read More

Shadow of Doubt

Actors: Nina Foch, John Ritter, Huey Lewis, Wade Dominguez, Melanie Griffith, Tom Berenger, Craig Sheffer

Synopsis: In this taut thriller, a determined defense attorney (Melanie Griffith) launches an investigation to prove her latest client, a popular rap singer, is innocent of killing his girlfriend. Her search leads the lawyer to another murder victim, this time a member of a politically powerful family. Her Read More

Rhapsody In Bloom

Actors: Penelope Ann Miller, Ron Silver, Craig Sheffer, Caroline Goodall, Michael Shulman

Synopsis: Craig M. Saavedra made his feature directorial debut with this romantic comedy-drama. After the death of her sister-in-law, Lilah Bloom (Penelope Ann Miller) began taking care of her brother Mitch (Ron Silver) and his three children. When Mitch meets career woman Debra (Caroline Goodall), Lilah Read More

Double Take

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Costas Mandylor, Brigitte Bako

Synopsis: In this drama, a popular writer fights for justice after he realizes that he helped convict the wrong man during a murder trial. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Executive Power

Actors: Joanna Cassidy, John Heard, Craig Sheffer

Synopsis: In this tense political thriller, a CIA agent turns in his credentials after one of his assignments, which involved covering up some embarrassing information for the president, unexpectedly leads to someone's death. However, he's brought back in to help investigate the murder of one of the Read More

Miss Evers' Boys

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Ossie Davis, Joe Morton

Synopsis: Produced for the HBO cable network, this docudrama explores the social and ethical issues at the heart of the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Blacks With Syphilis. From 1932 through 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service studied 600 poor African-American sharecroppers in Macon County, AL -- 399 Read More

Flypaper

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Robert Loggia, Sadie Frost, John C. McGinley, Illeana Douglas, Talisa Soto

Synopsis: Suspense and comedy combine in this convoluted tale of a successful Realtor who tries to save his wreck of a daughter from a crazed love-struck suitor. If that weren't enough, the wealthy businessman must also try to avoid the crooks trying to kidnap him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Head Above Water

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Cameron Diaz, Craig Sheffer, Billy Zane, Shay Duffin

Synopsis: A woman finds out how the dead body of your old boyfriend can ruin your whole day in this black comedy. Nathalie (Cameron Diaz) is a lovely young woman with a history of substance abuse problems who is married to George (Harvey Keitel), a circuit court judge who first met her when she was brought Read More

The Grave

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Gabrielle Anwar, Eric Roberts, Josh Charles, Anthony Michael Hall

Synopsis: This little chiller unfolds like a late-night campfire ghost story as it tells the strange tale of treasure hunters and a prison break from a North Carolina prison farm. It begins when a man approaches two inmates at the prison farm and tells them about a fabulous treasure buried in the coffin of Read More

A Season in Purgatory

Actors: Blair Brown, Patrick Dempsey, Brian Dennehy, Sherilyn Fenn, David Marshall Grant, Craig Sheffer

Bliss

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Sheryl Lee, Terence Stamp, Casey Siemaszko, Spalding Gray

Synopsis: A provocative drama about sex, love, and trust, Bliss concerns Joseph (Craig Sheffer) and Maria (Sheryl Lee), a young married couple whose relationship is in serious trouble. While they love each other, Maria has difficulty opening up to Joseph, and, after six months of marriage, he makes the Read More

Wings of Courage

Synopsis: This was billed as the first dramatic feature to be shot in IMAX 3D. It was first shown at Sony's new IMAX 3D Theater in New York on an eight-story high screen. The story is based on the true-life tale of two French aviators, Jean Mermoz and Antoine de St Exupery, who in 1930 formed the first Read More

Bloodknot

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Kate Vernon, Margot Kidder, Craig Sheffer

In Pursuit of Honor

Actors: Don Johnson, Craig Sheffer, Gabrielle Anwar, Bob Gunton, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Actor Ken Olin directed this real-life story of five American Calvary soldiers who took a stand against General Douglas MacArthur and fought his 1930s plan to trade men on horses for tanks. After defying a direct order to destroy their horses, the men find themselves on the wrong side of military Read More

Road Flower

Synopsis: The Road Flower was given a limited release in 1993, then reissued two years later under the title The Road Killers. Essentially a rehash of the old drive-in perennial Hot Rods to Hell, the film stars Christopher Lambert as the taciturn head of a vacationing family. While motoring somewhere in the Read More

The Road Killers

Actors: David Arquette, Christopher Lambert

Synopsis: A family on a road trip through the Arizona desert is terrorized by a teenage gang led by a deranged killer. They kidnap the family's teenage daughter, and the father must track down the gang and rescue his daughter. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

The Desperate Trail

Actors: Sam Elliott, Linda Fiorentino, Craig Sheffer, Frank Whaley

Synopsis: In this western, which combines Old West authenticity with a modern outlook and neo-feminist perspective, Sarah O'Rourke (Linda Fiorentino) is a tough-minded woman who made the mistake of marrying a violent, abusive man. Sarah decides that she can take no more and kills her husband. It's Sarah's Read More

Sleep with Me

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Meg Tilly, Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, Susan Traylor

Synopsis: Six screenwriters, all real-life friends, each wrote one of the sequences in this romantic comedy-drama that unfolds at a half-dozen parties and celebrations. During a cross-country trip, Joe (Eric Stoltz) proposes to his girlfriend Sarah (Meg Tilly) with his best friend Frank (Craig Sheffer) Read More

Fire in the Sky

Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, James Garner

Synopsis: One of the most famous real-life UFO abduction cases on record becomes this character-driven drama from sci-fi screenwriter Tracy Torme. D.B. Sweeney stars as Travis Walton, a forestry worker who disappears one night during an encounter with a flying saucer. Authorities treat with skepticism the Read More

Fire on the Amazon

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Craig Sheffer, Judith Chapman

Synopsis: Two Americans abroad discover how high the price of activism can be in this drama. When a well-known environmental researcher is murdered in the Amazon jungle, an arrogant photojournalist (Craig Sheffer) joins forces with a beautiful young activist (Sandra Bullock) to find out who is responsible. Read More

The Program

Actors: James Caan, Halle Berry, Omar Epps, Craig Sheffer, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: Eastern State University isn't particularly notable for anything except its football program. Lately, even that hasn't been doing too well, and the athletic staff led by Coach Winters (James Caan) are under considerable pressure by the administration and alumni to bring in a winning season. To do Read More

Demolition Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt

Synopsis: The plot of this action film begins in 1996, with Los Angeles in a violence-crazed conflagration. One of the LAPD's most notorious cops, John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), known as "the demolition man," is in hot pursuit of blonde-haired psychopath Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), who is so nasty he Read More

A River Runs Through It

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as Read More

Eye of the Storm

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Bradley Gregg, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dennis Hopper, Leon Rippy

Synopsis: Eye of the Storm is the eerie and tragic story of two brothers haunted by their past. Steven (Bradley Gregg) witnesses the murder of his parents by robbers. Running from the killers, Steven falls from a window and is blinded. Ten years later, Steven and his brother Ray (Craig Sheffer) are managing Read More

Blue Desert

Actors: Courteney Cox Arquette, D.B. Sweeney, Craig Sheffer, Sandy Ward

Synopsis: Long before she was in Friends, Courteney Cox had to deal with a few enemies in Blue Desert. A rape victim, Cox is given the runaround by the New York police. Fed up with city life, she heads for the wide open spaces of Arizona. Not long afterward, she is propositioned by lowlife Craig Sheffer. Read More

Instant Karma

Crew: Producer

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Chelsea Noble, David Cassidy, Glenn Hirsch, James Gallery, Orson Bean

Synopsis: Craig Sheffer stars as Zane, a TV producer looking for romance. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Nightbreed

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, Hugh Ross

Synopsis: Multimedia horror maven Clive Barker followed the success of his feature directorial debut Hellraiser with this equally surreal effort, based on his novella Cabal. The story involves the plight of Aaron Boone Craig Sheffer, a young man tormented by visions of monstrous, graveyard-dwelling Read More

Babycakes

Actors: Ricki Lake, Craig Sheffer

Synopsis: Babycakes is an American remake of the raucous 1988 German comedy Sugarbaby. A pre-talkshow Ricki Lake stars as Grace Johnson, who works as a cosmetician in a funeral parlor. The elephantine Grace falls in love with pencil-thin ice skater Rob Harrison (Craig Sheffer). Despite Harrison's Read More

Split Decisions

Actors: Gene Hackman, Craig Sheffer, Jeff Fahey, John McLiam, Jennifer Beals

Synopsis: This family drama centers on an Irish brood in which the father and his two sons work as prizefighters. Both the boys are quite talented, but each has chosen a dramatically different means of exploiting their talent. With help from his father, the youngest boy is working for the Olympics. The Read More

Some Kind of Wonderful

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Craig Sheffer, John Ashton

Synopsis: In a gender-reversed version of his previous hit Pretty in Pink, John Hughes retreads all-too- familiar ground in Some Kind of Wonderful, the story of a sensitive, young would-be artist, Keith (Eric Stoltz), who vies for the affection of his high school's popularity queen, Amanda (Lea Thompson) Read More

Voyage of the Rock Aliens

Actors: Pia Zadora, Tom Nolan, Craig Sheffer, Alison La Placa, Michael Berryman

Synopsis: When a collection of alien rock stars descend to earth, a young teenage couple finds themselves caught up in an unusual adventure. The film was shelved for quite some time, hence the presence of octogenarian Ruth Gordon, who died in 1985. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Fire with Fire

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Virginia Madsen, Jon Polito, Kate Reid

Synopsis: A juvenile delinquent falls in love with a beautiful Catholic girl's school student in this fact-based adolescent melodrama set in an Oregon forest. The two meet by accident when the troubled young man is out on a nature hike and sees the lovely girl floating in a small lake as she works on a Read More

That Was Then... This Is Now

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