Don Opper Filmography

Born:: Chicago, IL
Occupation:: Actor, Executive Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Actor and screenwriter Don Keith Opper is the man who helped bring audiences the Critters series of sci-fi/horror/comedies in which small, cute, fuzzy, and voraciously hungry creatures from space wreak havoc on the Midwest. In addition to assisting with the screenplays, Opper also starred in all...Read More

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Painkiller Jane

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Richard Roundtree, Tate Donovan, Eric Dane

Synopsis: Based on a comic book series created by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, the made-for-cable Painkiller Jane stars Emmanuelle Vaugier as Jane Elizabeth Browning, a young Marine captain who is the sole survivor when her Special Ops force is exposed to a biochemical "retrovirus" weapon after raiding Read More

2005
Invasion

Synopsis: Prolific B-movie director Albery Byun (Dollman, Omega Doom) takes the reigns for this tale of a small town overtaken by a highly contagious alien plague on the night of the senior prom. As the local teens party their way through prom night, a meteor crashes to the earth in a small California town Read More

2005
Suddenly

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

1996
Ghost in the Machine

Actors: Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey, Ted Marcoux, Wil Horneff, Jessica Walter

Synopsis: A serial killer is transformed into a computer virus out to destroy more than your hard drive in this sci-fi thriller. Terry Munroe (Karen Allen), a single mother, is looking for a gift for her boss and visits a computer store, where one of the employees demonstrates a hand-held scanner than can Read More

1994
Painted Desert

Actors: James Gammon, Nobu McCarthy, Kazuya Kimura, Priscilla Pointer, Don Opper

Synopsis: Veteran director Masato Harada spins this Bagdad Café-style drama about a group of quirky strangers stuck in the desert. The film opens with a yakuza named Jiro (Kazuya Kimura) staggering into a remote tumble-down café with an ugly shoulder wound. The place is run by tough-as-nails Read More

1993
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

Actors: Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Thal, Alfre Woodard, Julianne Moore, Cathy Moriarty, Andy Romano

Synopsis: Penelope Ann Miller's delightful performance as the shy, part-time librarian Betty Lou Perkins is the saving grace of this comedy from Touchstone Pictures. Betty Lou is the neglected wife of small-town police detective Alex Perkins (Eric Thal). She soon feels even more neglected when Alex can't Read More

8/21/92
Critters 3

Actors: Aimee Brooks, John Calvin, Katherine Cortez, Leonardo DiCaprio, Geoffrey Blake

Synopsis: The third in the tongue-in-cheek horror series liberally cribbed from Gremlins (1984) features an early performance from future heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio and was filmed simultaneously with its follow-up. This time out, it's an urban family who picks up one of the fast-multiplying beasties while Read More

1991
Critters 4

Actors: Don Opper, Paul Whitthorne, Angela Bassett, Brad Dourif, Terrence Mann

Synopsis: Sent directly to video, the fourth installment in the Critters series picks up the action with Charlie (Don Keith Opper) about to destroy the last of the critter eggs. A holographic apparition warns him, however, that every species must be preserved by galactic law; the eggs are transported into Read More

1991
The Forgotten

Actors: Stacy Keach, Keith Carradine, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: The Forgotten deserves at least a small niche in TV history as the first-ever TV movie made especially for the USA cable network. Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in Read More

1989
Critters 2: The Main Course

Actors: Scott Grimes, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Don Opper, Barry Corbin, Tom Hodges

Synopsis: Critters 2: The Main Course is the sequel to the highly enjoyable horror comedy Critters. The people of the Kansas town first menaced by the little, furry creatures find that they are not yet safe as they are again assaulted when the creatures reproduce. Charlie (Don Opper) is joined by Lee (Roxanne Kernohan Read More

4/29/88
Slam Dance

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Hulce, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Virginia Madsen, Millie Perkins, Adam Ant

Synopsis: In this off-beat and stylish mystery by director Wayne Wang, C.C. Drood (Tom Hulce) is an underground cartoonist who is separated from his wife Helen (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and daughter Bean (Judith Barsi). When his lover Yolanda (Virginia Madsen) is found murdered, Drood is the main focus Read More

10/2/87
Critters

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadine Van Der Velde

Synopsis: Critters, an amusing horror comedy directed byStephen Herek, is the story of a family menaced by eight basketball sized creatures from outer space who arrive at their Kansas farm in search of food. Helen Brown (Dee Wallace Stone) and Brad (Scott Grimes), owners of the farm find themselves held Read More

4/11/86
Black Moon Rising

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Hamilton, Robert Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Lee Ving

Synopsis: A John Carpenter story served as the launching pad for Black Moon Rising. Veteran thief Quint (Tommy Lee Jones) is hired by the FBI to steal some politically volatile computer tapes. The owners of the tapes are displeased, and begin chasing Quint all over the countryside. Just when he's about to Read More

1/10/86
City Limits

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Darrell Larson, John Stockwell, Kim Cattrall, Rae Dawn Chong, Robby Benson

Synopsis: This bleak post-apocalyptic science fiction actioner substitutes a plague instead of a bomb as the reason for civilization's demise but the result is the same -- grizzly motorcycle gangs with a ton of gasoline to burn. In City Limits the older generation has been wiped out by the plague, and the Read More

1985
Android

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Brie Howard, Norbert Weisser, Crofton Hardester, Kendra Kirchner

Synopsis: Several movie genres collide head-on in Android. Klaus Kinski plays a slightly cracked scientist, working in solitude on a remote space station. Kinski is hoping to develop a race of humanlike robots, the prototype of which is Max. 404 (Don Opper). He is interrupted by a coed gang of space-hopping Read More

1982