David ProvalFilmography

Phantom Punch

Actors: Ving Rhames, Nicholas Turturro, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, David Proval, Stacey Dash

Synopsis: Cinematic heavyweight Ving Rhames steps into the boxing ring as controversial pugilist Sonny Liston in this sports biopic that begins as Liston realizes his talent for boxing as an inmate at a Missouri State Penitentiary, and follows his career to the moment it was effectively ended due to a Read More

Balls of Fury

Actors: Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, Maggie Q, James Hong

Synopsis: A disgraced former ping pong champion is drawn back into the world of high-stakes table tennis to carry out a top-secret mission in the feature directorial debut of Reno 911! writer/director Ben Garant. Far removed from the rigidly regulated world of professional sports, clandestine ping pong Read More

Hollywood Dreams

Actors: Tanna Frederick, Justin Kirk, Zack Norman, David Proval, Karen Black

Synopsis: When an aspiring young starlet from Iowa falls in love with a handsome and promising young actor, she finds her dreams of fame slowly fading in a poignant tale of show-business aspirations from director Henry Jaglom. Upon arriving in Los Angeles to seek her fortune on film and stage, an innocent Read More

Smokin' Aces

Actors: Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven

Synopsis: When a shifty magician turns state's evidence against a Las Vegas underworld heavy, the high price placed on his head sparks a fevered race to rub the snitch out and collect a tidy paycheck in Narc director Joe Carnahan's dark action comedy. Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a small-time Read More

The Unknown Trilogy

Actors: Sal Mazzotta, Robert Costanzo, Johnny Williams, Ed O'Ross, Abe Vigoda, Justin Guarini, David Proval, Angie Everhart

Synopsis: Angie Everhart, David Proval, Sal Mazzotta and Abe Vigoda star in co-directors Mazzotta and Brian Cavallaro's horror omnibus exploring the shadowy areas between life and death, and the unexplored darkness that lurks just beneath our collective consciousness. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Angels With Angles

Actors: Julie Carmen, Rodney Dangerfield

Synopsis: A well-known level-one angel looking to reunite with his level-six soulmate strikes a special bargain with God in this heavenly comedy featuring some of the best-loved stars of the golden-era of cinema. George Burns (Frank Gorshin) is miserable in heaven. In addition to not being able to smoke his Read More

Nobody Wants Your Film

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Peter Stormare, Pruitt Taylor Vince

Synopsis: Director Peter Judson strings together a series of interviews and e-mails captured during the production of an independent feature film to tell this semi-fictionalized tale concerning the difficulties of getting distribution and the frustration, joy, banality, and passion of the filmmaking Read More

Just Desserts

Actors: Lauren Holly, Costas Mandylor, Dorie Barton, Andy Lauer, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: The Bronx bakery owned by the family of Marco Poloni (Costas Mandylor) is on the verge of bankruptcy, and Marco's Uncle Fab (David Proval) is poised to sell the place to a nationwide donut chain. To save the establishment and keep it in the family, Marco enters the "Golden Whisk Dessert Read More

Murder Without Conviction

Actors: Megan Ward, Morgan Weisser, Rutanya Alda, David Proval

Synopsis: A former nun moves into the suburban home of her deceased aunt only to make a shocking discovery concerning a gruesome crime committed thirty years ago in director Kevin Conner's twisting tale of murder, matricide, and injustice. Together, prodigious savants James and Edward Talley's remarkable Read More

Sopranos Unauthorized: A Behind-the-Scenes Documentary

Synopsis: John Fiore is your host for this behind-the-scenes look at one of the most acclaimed and ground-breaking television shows of the new millennium, The Sopranos. Sopranos Unauthorized: Shooting Sites Uncovered takes viewers on a guided tour of the real-life New Jersey locations where some of the Read More

13 Moons

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Peter Dinklage, David Proval, Daryl Mitchell, Karyn Parsons

Synopsis: The director of such off-beat independent films as In the Soup, director Alexandre Rockwell once again teams with that film's star to deliver this Los Angeles-based comedy concerning superstition and intersecting lives. Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's (Steve Buscemi) Read More

Bookies

Actors: Nick Stahl, Lukas Haas, Johnny Galecki, Rachael Leigh Cook, David Proval

Synopsis: The sophomore outing for Mark Illsley, the writer and director of 1999's Happy Texas, Bookies is a return to the crime comedy genre of the filmmaker's first project. Starring Nick Stahl, Lukas Haas, and Johnny Galecki as college buddies Toby, Casey, and Jude, the film begins with the trio upset Read More

Newsbreak

Actors: Michael Rooker, Judge Reinhold, Robert Culp

Synopsis: In this thriller, John McNamara (Michael Rooker) is an investigative reporter whose desire to root out a juicy story has not endeared him to many of the people he's written about, and he's lost a few jobs in the process. John wants to hold on to his latest job, but when he's assigned to write Read More

The West Wing: Take This Sabbath Day

Actors: Dulé Hill, Kathryn Joosten, Marlee Matlin

Synopsis: President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) has 48 hours to commute the death sentence of a man convicted of a controversial murder after the Supreme Court refuses to stop the execution. While struggling with the moral, ethical, legal, and religious issues of his decision, he calls on his former priest Read More

The Sopranos: Season 02

Actors: James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: New Jersey Mafia boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) continues maintaining the facade of being a respectable suburban husband and father while operating a vast criminal organization from the confines of the Bada-Bing Club during Season Two of The Sopranos. Now that the treacherous Uncle Junior Read More

Double Down

Actors: Jason Priestley, Peter Dobson, Richard Portnow, David Proval

Synopsis: A tightly-knit foursome of lifelong friends and unrepentant gamblers wage more than money in a winner-takes-all tale of epic proportions from director Mars Callahan. David Zigman (Jason Priestly) always manages to come through and beat the house at the last minute, but when he and his three pals Read More

The Siege

Actors: Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub

Synopsis: Edward Zwick directed this action thriller about Islamic militants unleashing terrorism in New York City. As FBI Terrorism Task Force-chief Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) investigates, a false-alarm bomb threat is followed by a legit bomb, with many killed when a Brooklyn bus explodes. Agents Read More

Mob Queen

Actors: David Proval, Dan Moran, Candis Cayne, Tony Sirico, Marlene Forte

Synopsis: In Brooklyn of the '50s, small-time mobster George (David Proval) and his sidekick Dip (Dan Moran) realize they've forgotten the birthday of mob boss Joey (Tony Sirico), so they engage the services of prostitute Glorice (Candis Cayne). Joey's reaction to Glorice gives George a promotion, and he's Read More

The Phantom

Actors: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar

Synopsis: The first superhero ever, created by Lee Falk in 1936, gets another shot at movie stardom 60 years after achieving fame in comics and serials. Billy Zane stars as Kit Walker, who discovers that he's the 21st in a line of purple-clad African superheroes known as "The Phantom" or, to superstitious Read More

Flipping

Actors: David Amos, David Proval, Gene Mitchell, Shant Benjamin, Barry Primus

Synopsis: Complexly plotted and suspenseful, this crime drama pays much heed to the psychological undertones of the relationships between a gang of thugs who take on their own boss. It begins on Hooker's wedding night. After the ceremony his friends celebrate while doing their assigned tasks. In one scene Read More

The Brady Bunch Movie

Actors: Christine Taylor, Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Michael McKean, Jean Smart, Henriette Mantel

Synopsis: The Brady Bunch Movie pays tribute to the 1970s TV show while poking gentle fun at it. The Brady family, led by father Mike (Gary Cole), still live in their suburban, split-level home and are still throwbacks to the era that spawned them. Eternally perky wife Carol (Shelley Long) is the perfect Read More

To the Limit

Actors: Anna Nicole Smith, Joey Travolta, John Aprea, David Proval, Branscombe Richmond

Synopsis: Someone is trying to get to West Coast gangster Frank DaVinci in this exploitational actioner. They are doing a good job too. So far, masked murderers have killed his bride and most of his henchmen. One of those gang members killed was the lover of the voluptuous Colette who decides to hide out Read More

Four Rooms

Actors: Tim Roth, Valeria Golino, Jennifer Beals, Antonio Banderas, Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: Four of the most celebrated directors in the independent film community pooled their talents for this episodic comedy. Ted (Tim Roth) is the new bellboy at a beautiful but decaying luxury hotel; he is not having a good time of it on New Year's Eve, his first night on the job. In one room, a coven Read More

Romeo Is Bleeding

Actors: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Roy Scheider

Synopsis: New York cop Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman) has a nice home, a stunning wife Natalie (Annabella Sciorra), and a sweet, if stupid mistress, Sheri (Juliette Lewis). Jack also earns extra money by betraying mob witnesses to Mafia-boss Don Falcone (Roy Scheider). Assigned to guard the viciously sexy Read More

The Shawshank Redemption

Actors: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Bill Sadler, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most Read More

Strike a Pose

Actors: Robert Eastwick, Michelle LaMothe, Margie Peterson

Synopsis: A famous fashion photographer, the lover of ace detective Nick Carter, team up to bring the vengeful killer of prominent fashion models to justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Innocent Blood

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Robert Loggia, Anthony LaPaglia, David Proval, Don Rickles, Don Rickels

Synopsis: An uneven but entertaining blend of graphic horror and black comedy from John Landis, very much in the mode of the director's successful An American Werewolf in London. French actress Anne Parillaud -- star of Luc Besson's acclaimed thriller La Femme Nikita -- plays Marie, a lithe and lovely Read More

UHF

Actors: Weird Al Yankovic, Michael Richards, Kevin McCarthy, Anthony Geary, Victoria Jackson, David Bowe

Synopsis: UHF is the film debut of comedy-rock satirist Weird Al Yankovic, who also co-wrote the screenplay. George Newman (Yankovic) and his friend, Bob (David Bowe from The Cable Guy), are fired from their jobs at Burger World. So George decides to take over channel 62, a failing local TV station that his Read More

Perfect Witness

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Aidan Quinn, Stockard Channing, Laura Harrington, Joe Grifasi

Synopsis: The Perfect Witness is New York restaurant owner Aidan Quinn. After witnessing a mob murder, Quinn does his civic duty by reporting the incident to the authorities. This plunks Quinn into the middle of a power play between the DA and ambitious US attorney Brian Dennehy, who won't let up on the Read More

Shakedown

Actors: Peter Weller, Sam Elliott, Patricia Charbonneau, Blanche Baker, Antonio Fargas

Synopsis: In this complicated crime drama, Roland Dalton (Peter Weller) is an attorney who must defend a drug dealer who claims he killed in self defense. His worthy opponent is his former flame Susan Cantrell (Patricia Charbonneau), now an effective career-minded prosecuting attorney. Richie Marks (Sam Elliott Read More

Vice Versa

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Fred Savage, Corinne Bohrer, Swoosie Kurtz, David Proval

Synopsis: A magical jeweled skull makes the wish of 11-year-old Charlie (Fred Savage) come true in this routine but entertaining situation comedy. Charlie wishes he can switch places with his father Marshall (Judge Reinhold), a shallow junior executive of a toy-manufacturing company. Marshall retains his Read More

The Monster Squad

Actors: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan

Synopsis: A group of adolescent monster movie enthusiasts form a club that meets in a treehouse in this pre-teen horror feature. When Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, and The Wolfman are joined by Gill-Man in the search for a magic amulet, the boys form the Monster Squad to battle the forces of evil. The Read More

Courage

Actors: Sophia Loren, Billy Dee Williams, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: This three-hour TV movie stars Sophia Loren as New Yorker Marianna Miraldo. Hurt and angered by her son's cocaine addiction, Marianna discovers that a close friend also has ties with the drug scene. After several of her imprisoned friend's associates try to contact him through her, the DEA Read More

The Star Chamber

Actors: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James B. Sikking

Synopsis: Fed up with watching vicious criminals walk on technicalities and loopholes, judge Michael Douglas accepts his older colleague Hal Holbrook's invitation to join "The Star Chamber." This sub-rosa organization consists of nine like-minded judges who endeavor to take the law into their own hands. Read More

Hey Good Lookin'

Actors: Richard Romanus, David Proval, Tina Bowman, Jesse Welles, Angelo Grisanti

Synopsis: Director/animator Ralph Bakshi turns his attention to 1950s Brooklyn in Hey Good Lookin', which looks at greasers hanging out (and making out) on street corners, hot girls, and gang rumbles, all set in a decaying urban landscape. The main action concerns Vinnie (voice of Richard Romanus), the Read More

Nunzio

Actors: David Proval, James Andronica, Morgana King, Tovah Feldshuh, Vincent Russo

Synopsis: In this touching tale, an amiable retarded delivery boy from Brooklyn works to help support his mother. Meanwhile his older brother keeps him safe from local punks; this sometimes creates turmoil for him as he must maintain a strong exterior to mask his love. While delivering his groceries, the Read More

Wizards

Synopsis: In this animated futuristic tale, a pair of twins must fight for domination of what is left of the world, the good man using the powers of magic in an attempt to save the Earth, and the evil twin taking advantage of the horrors of technology that again threaten to destroy everything. ~ Iotis Read More

Harry and Walter Go to New York

Actors: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Harry and Walter Go to New York was born of the theory that, the more stars and money that you throw into a film, the better the film will be. The theory has seldom been proven true, and it certainly wasn't in this case. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliot Gould) are a third-rate vaudeville Read More

Foster and Laurie

Synopsis: Given the title Foster and Laurie and the added fact that the protagonists are two cops, one might deduce that this TV movie was the pilot for a potential series. Not this time: The two leading characters are killed almost before the opening credits fade! In flashback, the film traces the Read More

Cinderella Liberty

Actors: Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason, Eli Wallach, James Caan

Synopsis: A "Cinderella Liberty" is Navy jargon for a pass that runs out at midnight. Sailor John Baggs, Jr. (James Caan) has such a pass, and intends to make the most of it while his ship is docked in Seattle. He "wins" prostitute Maggie (Marsha Mason) in a pool game, but backs off at a "wham-bam-thank you Read More

Mean Streets

Actors: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus

Synopsis: "You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it." Returning to the autobiographical milieu of his 1968 debut Who's That Knocking at My Door? for his third feature, Martin Scorsese examined the daily struggles of a Read More