David RascheFilmography

The Spy and the Sparrow

Actors: Elisabeth Röhm, Eric Roberts, David Rasche

Synopsis: A spy unwittingly puts himself and his family in danger as he tries to reconnect with the child he left behind in this independent drama from director Garrett Bennett. In the early 1980s, Thomas Sparrow (David Rasche) was an operative with the CIA whose work often kept him away from his wife and Read More

Burn After Reading

Actors: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: Joel and Ethan Coen's jet-black comedy Burn After Reading begins with CIA agent Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) losing his job. This prompts his long-suffering, unfaithful wife (Tilda Swinton) to consult a lawyer about divorcing him. Osborne decides to write a book about his exploits, but an early Read More

The Girl in the Park

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Kate Bosworth, Alessandro Nivola, Keri Russell, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: A socially isolated woman still haunted by the disappearance of her three-year-old daughter 15 years ago obsesses over the prospect that a troubled young woman whom she has recently befriended may in fact be her long-lost daughter in The Lake House director/screenwriter David Auburn's affecting Read More

Flags of Our Fathers

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers - played by Ryan Read More

The L.A. Riot Spectacular

Actors: Christopher McDonald, Emilio Estevez, T.K. Carter, Ronny Cox, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the police officers on trial for beating motorist Rodney King were found innocent. The city was engulfed by a massive riot, but the film plays these moments for laughs. In Read More

United 93

Actors: David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert, Ray Charleson, Christian Clemenson

Synopsis: Bloody Sunday director Paul Greengrass marks the five-year anniversary on the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States with this speculative meditation on the events that took place onboard the fourth hijacked plane, and the actions of the passengers who gave their lives to Read More

The Sentinel

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria, Martin Donovan, Ritchie Coster

Synopsis: A man who has devoted himself to serving the leader of the free world is accused of plotting against him in this thriller. Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is a veteran Secret Service agent who has had a long and distinguished career helping protect the president of the United States. David Read More

Perception

Actors: Piper Perabo, Seth Meyers, Mary Beth Hurt, Heather Burns, David Rasche, Kate Mulgrew, Aunjanue Ellis

Synopsis: Piper Perabo (Cheaper by the Dozen) plays Jen Marshall, a young girl in her mid-twenties who has more than a few skeletons in her closet, in Irving Schwartz's bittersweet drama release from Empire Pictures. Though she initially appears to be nothing short of a saint - leaving L.A. for Brooklyn to Read More

Off the Lip

Actors: Marguerite Moreau, MacKenzie Astin, David Rasche, Adam Scott, Mark Fite

Synopsis: Directed by Robert Mickelson, Off the Lip follows Kat (Marguerite Moreau), equipped with a spanking new journalism degree, on her first big assignment. Though the job sounds ideal at first -- its only requirements are a positive outlook, good instincts, perseverance, and a willingness to travel to Read More

Just Married

Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy, Christian Kane, David Moscow, Monet Mazur

Synopsis: Can a new marriage survive meddling friends, disapproving families, and some of the worst accommodations in Europe? That's the question posed in this broad comedy. Tom Leezak (Ashton Kutcher) is a regular guy who likes sports and beer and tries to make ends meet working as a nighttime radio Read More

Exposed

Actors: Tate Donovan, Gia Carides, Brenda Strong, Lumi Cavazos

Synopsis: The time has come for the annual Woman of Distinction award to be bestowed upon the most compelling female personality in media, and as the ceremony looms on the horizon and each of the three nominees practice their acceptance speeches, entertainment news television show host Bob Smith probes Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk Goes Back to School

Synopsis: Season Two of Monk begins as television's favorite obsessive-compulsive detective (Tony Shalhoub) hires on as a substitute teacher at Ashton High School. This enables him to investigate the death of English teacher Beth Landow (Erica Yoder), who fell from the school's clock tower while most of the Read More

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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

The Big Tease

Actors: Craig Ferguson, Frances Fisher, Chris Langham, Mary McCormack, Donal Logue

Synopsis: Craig Ferguson, best known to American audiences as Mr. Wick, the conniving boss who loves to fire people on The Drew Carey Show, co-wrote and starred in this mock-documentary about Crawford Mackenzie, Scotland's leading hairdresser. When Crawford receives an invitation to Los Angeles for the Read More

Dag

Actors: David Alan Grier, Delta Burke, David Rasche, Stephen Dunham, Emmy Laybourne

Synopsis: The title of this NBC sitcom refers to its protagonist, Secret Service agent Jerome "Dag" Daggett (by an amazing coincidence, the letters in the title also form the initials of the series' star, David Allen Grier). During an assassination attempt on the president of the United States (David Read More

Friends & Lovers

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Danny Nucci, George Newbern, Claudia Schiffer, Alison Eastwood, Robert Downey, Jr.

Synopsis: The Christmas holidays are fast approaching when Los Angeles native Ian (George Newbern) gets an unexpected invitation from his father (David Rasche) to join him for a vacation in Park City, Utah. The two don't get along especially well, but Ian goes partly in hopes of patching up the Read More

The Settlement

Actors: John C. Reilly, William Fichtner, Kelly McGillis, David Rasche, Dan Castellaneta

Synopsis: In The Settlement, Pat (John C. Reilly) and Jerry (William Fichtner) work on the fringes of the insurance industry in what are called "viatical settlements," which allow terminal patients the option of cashing in their life insurance policies before death for a reduced payment. In the 1980s, with Read More

Hostage Hotel

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Keith Carradine, Michael Blue, David Rasche

Synopsis: Produced for the TNT cable network, this is the last in a short series of TV movies starring Burt Reynolds as retired police detective Logan McQueen. Something of a bargain-basement Die Hard, the plot is set in motion when a disturbed, vengeance-seeking Vietnam veteran named Arlin Flynn (Keith Carradine Read More

Tourist Trap

Actors: Daniel Stern, Julie Hagerty, David Rasche, Paul Giamatti, Margot Finley

Synopsis: Seeing his family drifting apart, a father announces that he is planning a special vacation that will take them down the same paths followed by his famous ancestor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

That Old Feeling

Actors: Bette Midler, Dennis Farina, Paula Marshall, Gail O'Grady, David Rasche

Synopsis: In this Carl Reiner-directed romantic comedy, Bette Midler stars as a movie star named Lilly, who has had a fairly successful career which is now on the downturn. Years after a terrible divorce, she meets up again with her ex-husband Dan (Dennis Farina) at the wedding of their daughter Molly (Paula Marshall Read More

Dead Weekend

Synopsis: Sex and science fiction are again combined in this sophomoric fantasy set somewhere in the future in an unnamed US city. The tale begins as the media announces the unwelcome arrival of an alien spacecraft, from which a beautiful Asian woman disembarks. She has come to the gang-ravaged city for a Read More

Magic in the Water

Actors: Sarah Wayne, Mark Harmon, Joshua Jackson, Harley Jane Kozak

Synopsis: Set in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, this magical family tale centers on a divorced radio talk show psychiatrist who has been so immersed in his career that he has neglected his two kids, Ashley and Josh. To rectify the situation, he takes them to a beautiful lakeside cabin in Glenorky, BC Read More

Pie in the Sky

Actors: Josh Charles, Anne Heche, John Goodman, Peter Riegert, Christine Ebersole

Synopsis: This comedy chronicles the romantic exploits of a rather stodgy young man with a traffic fetish. Even as a child Charlie Dunlap was totally fixated by freeway traffic. Charlie's biggest idol is Alan Davenport, a radio traffic reporter. As a young man, Charlie falls in love with the lively Read More

Lieberman In Love

Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter

Actors: Matt McCoy, Crystal Chappell, Clint Howard, Rance Howard, Zachery Ty Bryan

Synopsis: Lost in the Northwest woods, a young boy ends up caught in a bear trap and threatened by a ferocious grizzly. Fortunately, he is saved by a friendly Sasquatch. Later the boy unwittingly plays a role in the Bigfoot's capture. Now it is the lad's turn to save his shaggy friend from those who would Read More

Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie inspired by the popular series Hart to Hart, jet-setting Jennifer and Jonathan Hart (Stephanie Powers and Robert Wagner) are attending a party for a successful publisher on his private island resort. Jennifer happens to overhear two men discussing a murder they plan to Read More

A Million to Juan

Actors: Paul Rodriguez, Polly Draper, Pepe Serna, Bert Rosario, Jonathan Hernandez

Synopsis: This comedy, set in the barrios East L.A. is loosely based upon Mark Twain's parable The Million Pound Bank Note. The new version tells the tale of Juan Lopez a nice, but uneducated hombre trying to earn enough money to support his little boy. Though Juan was born in the States, he lacks proper Read More

Barbarians at the Gate

Actors: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Riegert, Joanna Cassidy, Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis: This TV movie recounts the true-life story of a corporate takeover in the greed-driven 1980s. James Garner is F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR-Nabisco. Having just been burned by an expensive failure of a smokeless cigarette product, Johnson doesn't wish to incur the wrath of the stockholders. He Read More

Twenty Bucks

Actors: Linda Hunt, David Rasche, Concetta Tomei, George Morfogen, Sam Jenkins, Christopher Lloyd, Elisabeth Shue, Brendan Fraser

Synopsis: This fascinating chronicle of the life and times of a twenty dollar bill was originally written by Endre Boehm in 1935 and languished forgotten on the shelf until his son Leslie resurrected it after his father's death, and updated the script. (Both received screenwriter credit for the released Read More

Delirious

Actors: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr, Dylan Baker, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: John Candy plays Jack Gable, a soap-opera writer who finds himself trapped inside his own television program with a magic typewriter in this toothless comedy. Jack finds himself embroiled in protecting his beloved Laura (Emma Samms), an actress who plays Rachel Hedison in Jack's show -- "Beyond Read More

Bingo

Actors: Cindy Williams, David Rasche, Robert J. Steinmiller, David French, Kurt Fuller

Synopsis: A boy saves and befriends a mangy ex-circus dog and adopts him as a pet--without his father's knowledge. As the family moves across the country, the dog attempts to follow, getting into close calls and lots of adventures along the way. Will Bingo end up in the arms of his favorite boy? This Read More

Silhouette

Actors: Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: Silhouette, an excellent made-for-cable thriller, is the story of a businesswoman who is stranded by car trouble in a small town and who is the only witness to a murder. Samantha Kimball (Faye Dunaway), while waiting for her car to be repaired, stays in a rundown hotel in a small town. There Read More

Masters of Menace

Actors: James Belushi, David Rasche, Catherine Bach, Lance Kinsey, Teri Copley, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, George Wendt

Synopsis: The Second City comedy ensemble reunites for this camp story of a motorcycle gang trying to take home the body of a dead member (James Belushi). Problem is, they must also outrun a pesky lawyer (Ray Baker) who is trying to bring the group to justice for breaking their probation. John Candy, Dan Aykroyd Read More

Wedding Band

Actors: William Katt, Joyce Hyser, Tino Insana, Lance Kinsey, David Bowe

Synopsis: In this comedy, the members of the Shakers, an aspiring rock band, perform at a series of weird and wacky weddings. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

An Innocent Man

Actors: Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche, Richard Young

Synopsis: In Peter Yates' crime drama An Innocent Man, Tom Selleck plays Jimmie Rainwood, a stock figure airline maintenance supervisor with a perfect family. Then, one day, Jimmie decides to take a shower. While scrubbing himself clean, two crooked cops are getting themselves dirtier. Mike Parnell (David Rasche Read More

Wicked Stepmother

Actors: Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp, David Rasche, Lionel Stander

Synopsis: In this film, Steve (David Rasche) and Jenny's (Colleen Camp) new stepmother, Miranda (Bette Davis), is truly a witch in every sense of the word. With their father (Lionel Stander) happily deceived by his new wife, it is up to the kids to stop Miranda's dastardly plans, before it is too late. This Read More

Secret Witness

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, two pre-teens have fun spying on vacationers until they witness a murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wild About Hammer

All Shook Up

Made in Heaven

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton, Don Murray, Ellen Barkin, Marj Dusay

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph directed this offbeat, boy-meets-girl romance in which boy dies, dead boy meets dead girl, dead boy loses dead girl, and dead boy tries to find dead girl again. The tale begins is a small Pennsylvania town, where Mike Shea (Timothy Hutton) dreams of escaping small town life and moving Read More

Sledge Hammer!: Season 02

Actors: David Rasche, Ann-Marie Martin, Harrison Page, Leslie Morris

Synopsis: The first season of the lampoonish cop show Sledge Hammer! ended as the title character, a thick-muscled, thick-witted Los Angeles police detective (played by David Rasche), confidently set about to disarm a nuclear device. "I know what I'm doing," said Sledge -- but he didn't, and the season Read More

Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall

Sledge Hammer!: Wild About Hammer

Native Son

Actors: Carroll Baker, Akosua Busia, Matt Dillon, Art Evans, John Karlen, Elizabeth McGovern, Oprah Winfrey

Synopsis: Previously filmed in Argentina in 1951, black author Richard Wright's powerful race-conscious novel Native Son was remade in this barely released 1986 version. The story involves Bigger Thomas (Victor Thomas), an angry Depression-era Chicago black who hopes to elevate himself through his Read More

Cobra

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, Reni Santoni, Andrew Robinson, Lee Garlington

Synopsis: Crime is the disease and Sylvester Stallone is the cure in Cobra, a high-octane rehash of the Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry films, burnished to a 1980s action sheen. Stallone is Marion Cobretti, a cop called in when regular police methods have failed. Cobra is sent to get a cult of Charles Read More

Sledge Hammer!: Under the Gun

Synopsis: Sledge Hammer solves more crimes. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Primal Scream

Synopsis: In 1985, when this film was shot, 1997 must have seemed aeons away to director William Murray. According to this story, by that time a new type of energy has been created that is both wild and dangerous -- a real "hellfire." If it is not handled with care, this energy can carbonize anything or Read More

Sledge Hammer! [TV Series]

Actors: David Rasche, Ann-Marie Martin, Harrison Page, Leslie Morris

Synopsis: A broad and brassy satire of hard-boiled detective shows, the weekly, half-hour ABC sitcom Sledge Hammer! first burst onto the scene September 23, 1986. Created by Alan Spencer, the series starred David Rasche as Detective Inspector Sledge Hammer, a tough, arrogant cop who played by his own rules Read More

Sledge Hammer!: Season 01

Actors: David Rasche, Ann-Marie Martin, Harrison Page, Leslie Morris

Synopsis: David Rasche stars as the LAPD's toughest, nastiest, and stupidest detective as Sledge Hammer! bursts into its first season. The opener finds ultra-macho Inspector Sledge Hammer reluctantly teamed with a "mere dame," Officer Dori Doreau (Anne-Marie Martin). By episode's end, the sagacious Dori has Read More

Best Defense

Actors: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, Helen Shaver, George Dzundza

Synopsis: Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy try but fail to bring this flat comedy to life, while the story itself is hampered by intercutting between the years of 1982 in Los Angeles (Moore) and 1984 in Kuwait (Murphy), with no explanation of how these two disparate people and locations are related. Wylie (Moore Read More

Special Bulletin

Synopsis: Advertised as "a realistic depiction of fictional events," the harrowing speculative drama Special Bulletin was shot on videotape and staged as an actual late-breaking news event. The story concerns a group of anti-nuclear activists who take over the waterfront of Charleston, South Carolina. The Read More

The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck

Synopsis: This made-for-TV film is an Americanized remake of the 1975 German film The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (based on the novel by Heinrich Böll). Shorn of most of her movie-star glamour, Marlo Thomas plays Kathryn Beck, whose one-night stand with handsome Ben Cole (Kris Kristofferson) all but ruins Read More

Fighting Back

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Patti LuPone, Michael Sarrazin, Yaphet Kotto, David Rasche

Synopsis: An Italian deli owner (Tom Skerritt) gets fed up with the petty hoodlums in his south Philadelphia neighborhood who have been terrorizing his friends. He decides to form a neighborhood watch group to fight off the crooks. While his intentions are the very best, the group of vigilantes he forms Read More

SCTV Network: Melonvote with Linda Hopkins

Actors: Linda Hopkins, David Rasche

Synopsis: This year's SCTV election coverage focuses on the Melonville mayoral battle between incumbent Tommy Shanks (John Candy) and washed-up celebrity Vic Hedges (Joe Flaherty). In another hotly contested race, feminist chat show host Libby Wolfson (Andrea Martin) becomes "one with the people" in her Read More

Honky Tonk Freeway

Actors: Beau Bridges, Hume Cronyn, Beverly D'Angelo, William Devane, George Dzundza

Synopsis: In this involved send-up of two American icons -- the automobile and the tourist trap -- the tiny Florida town of Ticlaw strives desperately for success after it has been denied the most essential of all tourist amenities -- a freeway exit. The insane, and mostly successful, schemes of the mayor (William Devane Read More

Just Tell Me What You Want

Actors: Alan King, Ali MacGraw, Dina Merrill, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: In this Sidney Lumet romantic comedy, Max Herschel (Alan King) is a powerful businessman who keeps a bevy of beauties for pleasure to escape his alcoholic wife, Connie (Dina Merrill). His main minx is Bones Burton (Ali MacGraw), a successful television producer who is tiring of Max's lack of Read More

The Sanctuary of Fear

Synopsis: A Manhattan priest with a fondness for dabbling in detective work investigates a series of unnerving, mysterious attacks, seemingly designed to terrify a young actress. This made-for-television film, retitled for its video release, is inspired by the books of mystery author G.K. Chesterton. ~ Judd Read More

Something Short of Paradise

Actors: Susan Sarandon, David Steinberg, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marilyn Sokol, Joe Grifasi

Synopsis: The relationship between Madeleine Ross (Susan Sarandon), a journalist, and Harris Sloane (David Steinberg), an art theater owner is the focus of this standard love story. Neither protagonist is shown being very active in their respective careers, especially considering how active they are in Read More

Manhattan

Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep

Synopsis: On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American filmmakers, Manhattan continued Allen's romantic obsessions in a slightly darker, more pessimistic vein. Allen stars as Isaac Davis, a TV comedy writer sick of the pap he is Read More