D.B. SweeneyFilmography

Two Tickets to Paradise

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John C. McGinley, D.B. Sweeney, Moira Kelly, Ed Harris, Paul Hipp

Synopsis: Directed by actor D.B. Sweeney, Two Tickets to Paradise tells the story of three lifelong friends who are each facing problems of their own. Mark has developed a serious gambling problem that is beginning to hamper his marriage, as well as his relationship with his child. McGriff can't shed his Read More

Stiletto

Actors: Tom Berenger, Paul Sloan, Stana Katic, Tom Sizemore, Kelly Hu

Synopsis: A deadly seductress sets out to avenge her sister, in the process uncovering a dark conspiracy that makes her question everything she's been fighting for in this action thriller featuring Tom Berenger, Tom Sizemore, William Forsythe, and Michael Biehn. Raina (Stana Katic) was deeply in love with Read More

The Darwin Awards

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, Tim Blake Nelson, Wilmer Valderrama, David Arquette

Synopsis: When a San Francisco homicide detective with a keen eye for criminal profiling is fired for botching the arrest of a notorious serial killer, his subsequent effort to reinvent himself as an insurance claims case-investigator leads him to study a series of perplexing wrongful deaths in this comedy Read More

Yellow

Actors: Roselyn Sanchez, D.B. Sweeney, Bill Duke, Manny Perez, Jaime Tirelli

Synopsis: The follow-up to his feature debut, director Alfred De Villa's Yellow is drama starring Roselyn Sanchez as Amaryllis, an aspiring dancer trying to make it in New York City. After her father unexpectedly commits suicide, Amaryllis leaves her native Puerto Rico for the Big Apple with dreams of Read More

Entry Level

Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Missi Pyle, Kurtwood Smith, Taylor Negron, Cedric Yarbrough

Synopsis: An ambitious chef and restaurateur discovers that starting over is never easy after seeing his dreams dashed and being forced to work his way up the corporate ladder despite having no discernable job skills. Clay Maguire (D.B. Sweeney) never had any doubts about what he wanted to do with his life. Read More

House: Who's Your Daddy

Synopsis: 16-year-old Hurricane Katrina victim Leona (Aasha Davis) is flown into the clinic, suffering from hallucinations--and then from cardiac shock, even though her heart is sound. Making things personal for House (Hugh Laurie) is the fact that the girl is accompanied by his former bandmate Dylan Read More

Going to the Mat

Synopsis: Andrew Lawrence heads the cast of this inspirational made-for-cable movie as Jace Newfield, a blind teenager who moves from his native New York City to Utah. As the new kid in school, Jace desperately wants to be accepted, but the kids want nothing to do with him. At first he thinks it is because Read More

Life As We Know It [TV Series]

Actors: Sean Faris, Jon Foster, Chris Lowell, Missy Peregrym, Kelly Osbourne, Jessica Lucas

Synopsis: Not be confused with the British sitcom of the same name, ABC's Life As We Know It was produced by the same people responsible for the cult favorite Freaks and Geeks, and based on Doing It, a novel by Melvin Burgess. Set in Seattle, the series endeavored to delineate modern high school life as Read More

Brother Bear

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Jason Raize, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas

Synopsis: In the Disney-animated adventure Brother Bear, Joaquin Phoenix provides the voice of Kenai, a young Native American boy whose brother, Sitka (voice of D.B. Sweeney), is killed by a mother bear protecting her cubs. With revenge in mind, Kenai sets out into the woods only to find himself magically Read More

Speak

Actors: Hallee Hirsh, Kristen Stewart, Eric Lively, Elizabeth Perkins, D.B. Sweeney, Steve Zahn

Synopsis: Award-winning short filmmaker Jessica Sharzer makes her feature debut with the teen drama Speak, based on the young-adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. Kristen Stewart stars as high school freshman Melinda, who has lost her ability to speak. Ever since a traumatic event that occurred at a party Read More

SuperFire

Actors: D.B. Sweeney

Synopsis: D.B. Sweeney stars in the made-for-TV Superfire as disgraced airplane pilot James Merrick. Hoping to compensate for a past misdeed which cost several lives, Merrick volunteers to help fight not one but two raging forest fires which threaten to destroy an isolated Oregon community. Though the story Read More

Special Forces: Untold Stories [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: D.B. Sweeney

Hardball

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes

Synopsis: Television actor-turned-director Brian Robbins follows up Varsity Blues (1999) and Ready to Rumble (2000) with another sports comedy. Keanu Reeves stars as Conor O'Neill, an underachiever and inveterate sports gambler who needs a bailout loan from a friend to pay off his mounting debt. As a Read More

Greenmail

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Kelly Rowan, Tom Skerritt, D.B. Sweeney

Synopsis: When a dangerous extremist is apprehended by the authorities, a series of deadly bombings force a beautiful but deadly ATF agent into an uneasy alliance in this explosive action thriller from director Jonathan Heap. In the aftermath of a deadly chemical processing plan explosion, ATF agent Ashley Read More

The Weekend

Actors: Deborah Kara Unger, Jared Harris, D.B. Sweeney, Gena Rowlands, Brooke Shields

Synopsis: In an exclusive neighborhood in upstate New York, family and friends gather to commemorate the AIDS-related death of Tony (played in flashbacks by D.B. Sweeney), a much-loved young man. The gathering takes place at the country home of Tony's half-brother John (Jared Harris) and John's moody wife Read More

Dinosaur

Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Sam Wright

Synopsis: Walt Disney Pictures redefined computer animation with this technically accomplished fantasy of prehistoric life, combining live-action backgrounds with computer-generated animals. After a pterodactyl snatches a dinosaur's egg and accidentally drops it while flying away, the egg is rescued by a Read More

NYPD Blue: Big Bang Theory

Synopsis: Amidst his investigation of a murder involving a apartment-building gigolo (Raul Gomez), Danny Sorenson (Rick Schroder) takes time off to help his old army buddy Joey Dwyer (D.B. Sweeney). When Joey's ramblings turn suicidal, Sorenson seeks out assistance from Sipowicz (Dennis Franz). Read More

The Book of Stars

Actors: Mary Stuart Masterson, Jena Malone, Delroy Lindo, Karl Geary, D.B. Sweeney

Synopsis: This independent drama examines the relationship between Mary (Jena Malone), a 15-year-old girl whose been forced into a wisdom beyond her years by dealing with a serious illness, and her older sister Penny (Mary Stuart Masterson). The responsibility of caring for Mary has fallen to Penny, who Read More

Harsh Realm [TV Series]

Actors: Scott Bairstow, D.B. Sweeney, Terry O'Quinn, Samantha Mathis, Max Martini

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Actors: Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, Obba Babatunde, Loretta Devine, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: Dorothy Dandridge was a singer, nightclub entertainer, and actress who became the first African-American woman to receive an Academy award nomination as Best Actress (for her standout performance in 1954's Carmen Jones; she lost to Grace Kelly). However, despite her striking beauty and obvious Read More

Spawn

Actors: John Leguizamo, Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle, Melinda Clarke

Synopsis: One of the most popular independent comic books of its decade was transformed into this dark, bloody adventure intended to launch a profitable superhero franchise. Michael Jai White stars as Al Simmons, a corrupt assassin betrayed and murdered by his evil government supervisor, Jason Wynn (Martin Sheen Read More

Roommates

Actors: Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney, Julianne Moore, Jan Rubes, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: In the film Happy New Year (1987), actor Peter Falk donned old-age makeup to play a senior citizen. Eight years later, he did it again, twice, in the TV movie remake of The Sunshine Boys (1995) and this film, a comedy-drama. Falk stars as Rocky Holzcek, a cantankerous 76-year-old Polish-American Read More

Hear No Evil

Actors: Marlee Matlin, D.B. Sweeney, Martin Sheen, John C. McGinley, Christina Carlisi

Synopsis: Hear No Evil, while based on the interesting premise of a deaf woman stalked by a relentless killer, is a well-crafted but predictable mystery thriller. Jillian (Marlee Matlin), a physical trainer is unknowingly given a valuable stolen coin. The theft of the coin was planned by a corrupt and 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

The Cutting Edge

Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Moira Kelly, Roy Dotrice, Terry O'Quinn, Dwier Brown

Synopsis: Can a rough and tumble hockey player and a snooty ice dancer find love and a gold medal at the same time? That's the burning (or more appropriately freezing) question in this romantic drama. Kate Moseley (Moira Kelly) is a world-class figure skater training for the Olympics; she has genuine Read More

Miss Rose White

Actors: Maureen Stapleton, Kyra Sedgwick, Maximilian Schell, Amanda Plummer, Penny Fuller

Synopsis: In this Hallmark Hall of Fame TV film set in the post-war era, Kyra Sedgwick is the title character, a New Yorker who has long kept her Jewish heritage under wraps. Born in Poland but sent to the U.S. before the Holocaust, the young career woman receives word that the older sister she presumed was Read More

Heaven Is a Playground

Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Mike Warren, Richard Jordan, Victor Love, Janet Julian, Bo Kimble

Synopsis: Set in Chicago, Heaven is a Playground is about an inner-city basketball coach and a young lawyer who set out to save a group of teen-aged boys from crime and drugs by giving them athletic scholarships and teaching them basketball. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

En Dag I Oktober

Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Kelly Wolf, Tovah Feldshuh, Daniel Benzali, Ole Lemmeke

Synopsis: Shot on location in Denmark, this riveting and inspirational WW II-era drama chronicles the courage of a young Jewish woman who risks her life and that of her family by concealing a wounded resistance fighter in their home in 1943 just prior to the Nazi invasion of Denmark. The girl eventually 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

Memphis Belle

Actors: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, David Strathairn

Synopsis: Unabashedly sentimental, this war film was produced by David Putnam in partnership with Catherine Wyler, whose father William Wyler directed an acclaimed documentary about the real-life events depicted in the film. The ensemble cast is composed of ten young actors portraying the crew of the World Read More

Leather Jackets

Actors: Lee Drysdale, Bridget Fonda, D.B. Sweeney, Cary Elwes

Synopsis: Mickey (D.B. Sweeney) is a reformed thief who works construction. He's saved up his money to move out of his small town and get away his criminal past. Before he leaves town, he proposes to Claudi (Bridget Fonda), a friend he's secretly loved for ages. Claudi has a reputation in town and she's Read More

Lonesome Dove

Actors: Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Rick Schroder, Robert Urich, Diane Lane, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston

Synopsis: This six-hour miniseries, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry, revitalized both the miniseries and Western genres, both of which had been considered dead for several years. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as fun-loving Gus MacRae and taciturn Woodrow Call Read More

Sons

Actors: William Forsythe, D.B. Sweeney, Robert Miranda, Samuel Fuller, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: Distressed at their father's imminent demise, his three sons decide to try and make his last wish come true while he is yet alive. Though he is disabled by a stroke and unable to communicate, his roommate in the Veteran's hospital knows that he has wanted to go back to Normandy since he was there Read More

Eight Men Out

Actors: John Cusack, Clifton James, David Strathairn, Christopher Lloyd, John Mahoney, D.B. Sweeney, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports -- the fix of the 1919 World Series -- is considered by many to be among his best films and arguably the best baseball movie ever made. This adaptation of Eliot Asinof's definitive study of the scandal Read More

No Man's Land

Actors: Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, Randy Quaid, Lara Harris, Bill Duke

Synopsis: Benjy Taylor (D.B. Sweeney) is a rookie cop who goes undercover to nab a gang of car thieves in this routine crime drama. Taylor salivates over the lifestyle and money enjoyed by Ted Varrick (Charlie Sheen), the smooth operator who leads the Porsche pilferers, and he reports back to Lieutenant Read More

Gardens of Stone

Actors: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Set in Washington D.C. during the Vietnam War era, Gardens of Stone concentrates on the trials and tribulations of the Arlington National Cemetery home guard. James Caan plays career soldier Sgt. Clell Hazard, who has come to the sad conclusion that Vietnam is unwinnable and that America should 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

Power

Actors: Richard Gere, Julie Christie, Gene Hackman, Kate Capshaw, Denzel Washington

Synopsis: A star-studded cast portrays political movers and shakers in this drama about politics and the media. Richard Gere is Pete St. John, a gilt-edged "image" advisor to the likes of powerful and often crooked politicians -- including a South American candidate for the top office in his country and Read More