Daniel Waters Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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Sex and Death 101

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Simon Baker, Winona Ryder, Patton Oswalt, Leslie Bibb, Mindy Cohn

Synopsis: Upon receiving an e-mail containing the names of every woman he has ever slept with and every women he will ever sleep with, a man set to be married in just one week eschews his wedding plans in favor of seeking out the truth behind the perplexing message in a black comedy written and directed by Heathers Read More

4/4/08
Happy Campers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Brad Renfro, Dominique Swain, Emily Bergl, James King, Jordan Bridges

Synopsis: Screenwriter Daniel Waters, who up-ended the traditional teen comedy with his cult classic Heathers, makes his directorial debut with this darkly humorous teen romp. It's summer at Camp Bleeding Dove, and when the teenaged counselors aren't busy watching their young charges or being verbally Read More

2001
Demolition Man

Crew: Screenwriter

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

1993
Batman Returns

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a Read More

6/19/92
Hudson Hawk

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, Sandra Bernhard, Richard E. Grant, James Coburn

Synopsis: Michael Lehmann directed this post-modernist hash of To Catch a Thief and The Naked Gun starring Bruce Willis as Hudson Hawk, a cat burglar who wants to go straight, but the circumstances won't allow it. The story begins in a pre-credit sequence that takes place in the renaissance. Leonardo Da Read More

5/24/91
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Andrew Dice Clay, Wayne Newton, Priscilla Presley, Morris Day, Lauren Holly

Synopsis: Controversial and often offensive stand-up comedian Andrew Dice Clay made his debut as a feature film star in this crude comedy. Fairlane is a "rock and roll detective" who works in the music business, has an office on Sunset Boulevard, and drives a 1957 Ford, with clothing to match. He floats Read More

7/11/90
Heathers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker

Synopsis: A deliciously nasty black comedy, Heathers is set at a cliquish high school in Ohio. The most exclusive of those cliques is the Heathers, comprised of the prettiest and most popular girls in town. The group's leader is the manipulative Kim Walker, who orchestrates the humiliation of anyone who Read More

3/31/89