David Mansfield Filmography

Diggers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Paul Rudd, Lauren Ambrose, Ron Eldard, Josh Hamilton, Sarah Paulson, Ken Marino, Maura Tierney

Synopsis: In the years before the Hamptons became the ultimate Long Island destination, two generations of clam diggers work the land and struggle to make sense of the changes that threaten to forever change their simple way of life. The year is 1976, and the future Long Island vacationing hotspot is little Read More

Stephanie Daley

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Timothy Hutton, Denis O'Hare, Melissa Leo

Synopsis: A frightened and irresponsible girl and an emotionally conflicted woman are brought together under tragic circumstances in this independent drama. Stephanie Daley (Amber Tamblyn) is a 16-year-old girl who while on a school-sponsored ski trip collapses in a puddle of blood; a medical examination Read More

The Guitar

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Saffron Burrows, Isaach de Bankolé, Paz de la Huerta, Janeane Garofalo

Synopsis: A doomed woman discovers her creative spirit during a final fling with life in this independent drama. Melody Wilder (Saffron Burrows) is already having a bad day when she visits her doctor about a troubling lump in her throat -- her boyfriend has left her, and she's lost her job. However, this Read More

Transamerica

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Performer

Actors: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Elizabeth Peña, Graham Greene

Synopsis: The first film by Duncan Tucker, Transamerica stars Felicity Huffman as a pre-operative transsexual named Bree (whose given name was Stanley). One week before going under the knife, Bree learns that she fathered a boy who is now 17 and is in trouble with the law. Bree would like to ignore this Read More

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd, Fionnula Flanagan, Maggie Smith, Cherry Jones, Shirley Knight, James Garner

Synopsis: Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere. Sandra Bullock stars as Sidda Lee Walker, a New York playwright who opens a can of emotional worms Read More

Songcatcher

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Emmy Rossum, Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams, Gregory Cook

Synopsis: Janet McTeer follows up her Oscar-nominated performance in Tumbleweeds (1999) with this period drama set during the 1910s. Dr. Lily Penleric (McTeer), an uptight musicologist, is furious after getting denied tenure again at an elite all-male East Coast university. She promptly quits out of Read More

What Makes a Family

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Co-produced by Barbra Streisand and Whoopi Goldberg, the made-for-TV What Makes a Family stars Brooke Shields, cast against type as a woman happily committed to a lesbian relationship. Yearning for a family of their own, Janine Nielsen (Shields) and her partner, Sandy Cataldi (Cherry Jones), elect Read More

Así es la vida

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Arcelia Ramirez, Luis Felipe Tovar, Patricia Reyes Spindola, Ernesto Yanez

Synopsis: Using digital video and a skeleton crew, master filmmaker Arturo Ripstein boldly reworks the ancient Greek drama Medea, employing a dizzying array of flashbacks and Brechtian devices. The film focuses on Julia (Arcelia Ramirez) who works as an homeopathic doctor. Lovelorn and embittered, she Read More

Tumbleweeds

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown, Gavin O'Connor, Jay O. Sanders, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Gavin O'Connor directed, co-wrote and plays a major supporting role in this drama about a mother and daughter coming to terms with each other's problems. In Tumbleweeds, Janet McTeer plays Mary Jo Walker, a single mother with a long string of bad marriages and a habit of hitting the road when Read More

Floating

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: While he takes care of his legless, alcoholic father, Van spends a lot of time haring around with his wild friends Flip and Jason, stealing from the summer homes of the well-to-do people in his old neighborhood. They stash their loot in the basement of Van's former home (he and his father Read More

El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Rafael Inclán, Ernesto Yanez

Synopsis: Based on the novel of Gabriel Garcia Marquez by the same name, but set in the forties, the film is a reflection on life and its illusions by the Mexican master Arturo Ripstein. In a small coastal town in Mexico in the late 1940's, an obstinate colonel of the anticlerical Cristeros War keeps Read More

A Good Baby

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Henry Thomas, David Strathairn, Cara Seymour, Danny Nelson, Jayne Morgan

Synopsis: A small town's secrets prove deeper and more mysterious than they initially seemed in A Good Baby. Toker (played by Henry Thomas) is a young man living in a small North Carolina community, where he prefers to keep to himself. One day, while taking a walk in the woods, Toker finds a baby, and Read More

El Evangelio De Las Maravillas

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Katy Jurado, Carolina Papaleo, Edwarda Gurrola, Bruno Bichir

Synopsis: Mexican director Arturo Ripstein helmed this Mexican-Argentine-Spanish religious drama with Buñuelian overtones. Based on true events that took place in Mexico during the '70s, the film is updated to the present. Mama Dorita (Katy Jurado) leads the New Jerusalem cult with film-buff Papa Basilio (Francisco Rabal Read More

Outrage

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rob Lowe, Jennifer Grey, Eric Michael Cole, Shane Meier, Cyrus Thiedeke

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola is one of the executive producers of this revenge-themed telefilm. After insurance agent Tom Casey (Rob Lowe) reports on the suspicious actions of teens near his apartment building, Tom and his pregnant wife Sally (Jennifer Grey) are threatened by the teens in a series of Read More

Dark Harbor

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alan Rickman, Polly Walker, Norman Reedus

Synopsis: Adam Coleman directed this psychological thriller that opens as attorney David (Alan Rickman) and Alexis Weinberg (Polly Walker), trying to catch the last ferry to their island home, spot a man (Norman Reedus) alongside the rainswept road. He's bleeding from a beating by unknown assailants and Read More

Deep Crimson

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Regina Orozco, Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Marisa Paredes, Veronica Merchant

Synopsis: Noted Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein directed this darkly comic drama of love and murder. Coral Fabre (Regina Orozco) is an overweight, emotionally unstable nurse raising two children on her own. Coral is desperately lonely, and through a "Lonely Hearts" club, she begins corresponding with Read More

The Advocate's Devil

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: When popular San Francisco Condors basketball star Joe Campbell (Holt McCallany) is accused of rape, nobody--not the public, not his teammates--can bring themselves to believe that the sweet, babyfaced "White Knight" is guilty of the crime. Still, the case against Joe seems pretty solid, thanks to Read More

The Apostle

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Duvall, Farrah Fawcett, Miranda Richardson, Todd Allen, John Beasley

Synopsis: Devout Pentecostal preacher Eulis "Sonny" Dewey (Robert Duvall) of New Boston, Texas, has a lovely wife (Farrah Fawcett) and two children. But not only has Jessie been cheating on him with a younger minister, Horace (Todd Allen), she has pulled a few strings to gain control of his church. Sonny Read More

Road Ends

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Peter Coyote, Chris Sarandon, Joanna Gleason, Mariel Hemingway

Synopsis: Real estate agent Maceda (Chris Sarandon) once testified against drug trafficker Orosco (Miguel Najera). Now Orosco is out of prison, and Maceda has a problem. He flees, hiding out at a near-vacant California Central Valley inn where innkeeper Kat (Mariel Hemingway) is happy to have him sign the Read More

Suddenly

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Jason Beghe, Colleen Camp, Jason Bernard, Nancy Cartwright

Synopsis: Barely recognizable under a blonde wig and several layers of garish makeup, Kirstie Alley stars in this made-for-TV drama as Marty, a freewheeling waitress who compensates for the emptiness in her life with jokes and wisecracks. On the verge of finding emotional fulfillment with a new romance Read More

The People Next Door

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Nicollette Sheridan, Michael O'Keefe, Tracey Ellis

Synopsis: A single mother moves into a new neighborhood unaware that her new neighbors, a couple unable to have their own children, have designs on hers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Truman

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: This award winning made-for-cable movie tells the story of American President Harry S.Truman and his role in the second World War. Gary Sinese stars in the title role of this biographical account, which is based on Pulitzer Prize-winner David McCullough's book. The film chronicles Truman's rise Read More

David's Mother

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Sam Waterston, Stockard Channing, Phylicia Rashad, Chris Sarandon

Synopsis: Kirstie Alley earned a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in this moving made-for-TV drama. She plays Sally Goodson, the devoted mother of autistic child David. Abandoned by her husband years before, Sally has sacrificed much for her son but has felt it in his best interest. One of the Read More

The Ballad of Little Jo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung, Carrie Snodgress

Synopsis: The Ballad of Little Jo is based on a true story -- several true stories, in fact. Suzy Amis plays demure young Josephine Monagan, who in 1866 is run out of her home town after bearing an illegitimate child. Fleeing westward, Josephine is terrified by stories of how treacherous the frontier can be Read More

Me and Veronica

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Elizabeth McGovern, Patricia Wettig, Michael O'Keefe, John Heard, Scott Renderer

Synopsis: A rebellious woman (Patricia Wettig) has continually made life hard for her younger sister (Elizabeth McGovern) by sleeping with her husband and wrecking her marriage. The older sister returns to her New Jersey hometown to cause more trouble before beginning a prison sentence. ~ John Bush, All Read More

Late for Dinner

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brian Wimmer, Peter Berg, Marcia Gay Harden, Colleen Flynn, Kyle Secor

Synopsis: W.D. Richter directed this comedy-drama in the spirit of Back to the Future and Peggy Sue Got Married. The film opens in Santa Fe in 1962, where Willie (Brian Wimmer) and Joy Husband (Marcia Gay Harden) are a cute couple living in familial bliss with their five-year-old daughter. When evil Read More

The Desperate Hours

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers, Lindsay Crouse, Kelly Lynch

Synopsis: The Desperate Hours directed by Michael Cimino, is an attempt to remake the Humphrey Bogart classic of the same name with indifferent results. Bosworth (Mickey Rourke), a brutal criminal on the run with his partners, takes over a house occupied by an unhappily married couple Nora (Mimi Rogers) and Read More

Miss Firecracker

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: A hot tamale tries to throw off a different sort of heat in this comedy of small-town manners. Carnelle Scott (Holly Hunter) is best-known in her hometown of Yazoo City, MS, for her unrepentant promiscuity. An orphan taken in by her genteel relatives, she idolizes her older cousin, Elain Rutledge Read More

Fresh Horses

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patti D'Arbanville, Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Ben Stiller, Leon Russom, Viggo Mortensen

Synopsis: Fresh Horses features Molly Ringwald as Jewel, a Kentucky shanty gal. Jewel finds herself romantically involved with wealthy University of Cincinnati student Matt Larkin (Andrew McCarthy). Though willing to throw over his "proper" fiancee for Jewel, Matt isn't prepared for the horrible secret that Read More

The Sicilian

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Richard Bauer, Barbara Sukowa

Synopsis: Adapted from Mario Puzo's novel, The Sicilian is an attempt to chronicle the life and times of Mafia leader, patriot and real-life Robin Hood Salvatore Giuliano, the infamous bandit who, together with his rag-tag band of guerillas, attempted to liberate 1940s Sicily from Italian rule and make it Read More

Into the Homeland

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Powers Boothe, C. Thomas Howell

Synopsis: This made-for-cable thriller stars Powers Boothe as a former policeman whose son (C. Thomas Howell) has fallen prey to a band of white supremacists. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Club Paradise

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy

Synopsis: Robin Williams' comic shtick sabotages any attempt at comic development in Harold Ramis' patchy comedy farce Club Paradise. Williams plays Jack Moniker, a Chicago fireman injured in the line of duty, who uses his disability money to open up a run-down Caribbean resort. Jack eagerly awaits the Read More

Year of the Dragon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane, Leonard Termo, Ray Barry

Synopsis: Best known for his 1978 film The Deer Hunter or perhaps the less-successful Heaven's Gate, director Michael Cimino turned to this fast-paced actioner set in an authentic (back lot) Chinatown. This thriller stars a rogue Polish-American cop (Mickey Rourke) out to not only keep Chinatown safe for Read More

Heaven's Gate

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston, John Hurt, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist, post-Vietnam view of American imperialism Read More