Edward R. PressmanFilmography

The Crow

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Blade's Stephen Norrington resurrects James O'Barr's Crow character with this redo of Alex Proyas' gothic actioner. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

Wall Street 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon

Synopsis: Famous onscreen villain Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) returns to the big screen with Wall Street 2, once again directed by Oliver Stone. This installment promises a "ripped from the headlines" plot, with Gekko teaching co-star Shia LaBeouf the ins and outs of criminal investments. Frost/Nixon's Read More

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Crew: Producer

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Xzibit, Fairuza Balk

Synopsis: Abel Ferrara's cult crime drama Bad Lieutenant is given a sister film with this Werner Herzog-helmed production that takes its inspiration from the original, but focuses on new characters and plotlines. Nicolas Cage steps into Harvey Keitel's mold of a corrupt and drug-addled police officer, with Read More

Mutant Chronicles

Crew: Producer

Actors: Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, Devon Aoki, Benno Fürmann, Sean Pertwee, John Malkovich, Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Synopsis: Steampunk aesthetics inform this story of a dystopic future in which humankind wages an explosive last stand against the demonic NecroMutants, who would see the entire human race brutally annihilated. Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, Devon Aoki, and John Malkovich star in this effects-heavy sci-fi action Read More

Amazing Grace

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: One man's role in the long battle to outlaw slavery in the United Kingdom sets the stage for this historical drama from director Michael Apted. In 1784, 21-year-old William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) was elected to the British House of Commons, and soon established himself as a politician with a Read More

Sisters

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lou Doillon, Stephen Rea, Chloë Sevigny, Dallas Roberts

Synopsis: Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America director Douglas Buck follows that gruesome collection of three short films with this feature-length reimaging of cinema auteur Brian De Palma's 1973 horror film concerning a pair of mysterious siblings and the curious reporter who stumbles upon their deadly Read More

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey, Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: Nicole Kidman assumes the identity of visionary photographer Diane Arbus in a film that draws inspiration from author Patricia Bosworth's best-selling biography to tell the tale of a once-shy woman who becomes one of her generation's most strikingly original visual artists. Diane Arbus was a Read More

Driving Lessons

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Nicholas Farrell, Laura Linney, Jim Norton, Michelle Duncan

Synopsis: Two strong-willed women wield their influence on a shy teenaged boy in this coming-of-age comedy from the United Kingdom. Seventeen-year-old Ben (Rupert Grint) is the son of a soft-spoken vicar (Nicholas Farrell), but it's his mother, Laura (Laura Linney), who rules the household, and she has put Read More

The King

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gael García Bernal, William Hurt, Paul Dano, Pell James, Laura Elena Harring

Synopsis: A young man exacts a thorough revenge against the father who abandoned him in this independent drama. Elvis (Gael García Bernal) is a young man in his early twenties who, after finishing a hitch in the Navy, learns that his biological father was Pastor David Sandow (William Hurt), a man of the Read More

Thank You for Smoking

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott

Synopsis: The directorial debut from Jason Reitman, the media satire Thank You for Smoking stars Aaron Eckhart as Nick, a man who has turned spinning news and information into a successful career for the tobacco lobby. He plots strategies with his colleagues (Maria Bello and David Koechner) on how to make Read More

The Beautiful Country

Crew: Producer

Actors: Arthur Nascarella, Damien Nguyen, Nick Nolte, Tim Roth, Bai Ling, Temuera Morrison, John Hussey

Synopsis: A Vietnamese man looking for a better life embarks on a dangerous and eye-opening voyage to America in this powerful drama set during the early '90s. In 1990, Binh (Damien Nguyen) is a man in his early twenties who has never known his parents, though he is clearly of mixed-race parentage, which Read More

Undertow

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Devon Alan, Dermot Mulroney, Shiri Appleby

Synopsis: Chris (Jamie Bell of Billy Elliot) is a volatile teen who lives with his father, John (Dermot Mulroney), and his little brother, Tim (Devon Alan). After the death of Chris' mother, his reclusive father moved the family to a shack in backwoods Georgia, where they raise hogs. Tim has an unusual Read More

Rick

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford, Agnes Bruckner, Sandra Oh, Dylan Baker

Synopsis: The amoral world of a handful of Wall Street businessmen is delineated in this black comedy written by Lemony Snicket creator Daniel Handler. Rick takes as its central character a mid-level manager (Bill Pullman) working in a nameless corporation for a boss, Duke (Aaron Stanford), who's nearly Read More

Never Die Alone

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: DMX, David Arquette, Michael Ealy, Clifton Powell, Reagan Gomez-Preston

Synopsis: From a script from first-time scribe James Gibson comes this filmed adaptation of ex-gangster Donald Goines' 1974 novel Never Die Alone. Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson (Juice, Bones), the films stars David Arquette as Paul Pawlowski, a reporter who takes an interest in gang kingpin King David Read More

Love Object

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Udo Kier, Robert Bagnell, Michael Peña

Synopsis: Robert Parigi writes and directs the low-budget horror movie Love Object. Technical writer Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) is too shy to reveal his attraction to co-worker Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller). He's only able to relax after ordering Nikki, a Lisa-lookalike sex doll with realistic anatomy. The Read More

The Hebrew Hammer

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick, Mario Van Peebles, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: He's hip, he's fly, and he never mixes meat with dairy -- he's the world's first Jewish private eye, and he's out to save the world in this satiric comedy. Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg) is a super-cool Jewish detective who takes no mess and is always ready to do the right thing for Read More

The Cooler

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William H. Macy, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin, Shawn Hatosy, Ron Livingston

Synopsis: Writer/director Wayne Kramer offers a glimpse into the aging Las Vegas casino world with the romantic drama The Cooler. Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is extremely unlucky at gambling, and he owes the Shangri-La casino over 100,000 dollars. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a "cooler," someone Read More

Party Monster

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Chloë Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, Justin Hagan

Synopsis: After profiling Monica Lewinsky, Billy Haynes, and Tammy Faye Bakker, documentarians Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato make their feature debut with this true-life tale of the rapid climb and lurid demise of a flamboyant young club promoter in late-'80s/early-'90s Manhattan. Based on James St. Read More

Owning Mahowny

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin, John Hurt, Sonja Smits, Ian Tracey

Synopsis: A seemingly ordinary bank employee develops an obsession that could destroy his life and that of those around him in this drama. Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a quiet, unassuming employee of a bank in Toronto; he lives modestly, drives a used car, and is dating one of the bank's tellers Read More

The Guys

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: In the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., of September 11, 2001, Jim Simpson, the creative director of New York City's Flea Theater Company, wanted to stage a theater piece which would deal with the human impact of this tragedy. When Simpson met journalist Anne Nelson Read More

Happy Times

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ling Qibin, Zhao Benshan, Dong Jie, Li Xuejian, Dong Lifan

Synopsis: A man stretching the truth for his own sake soon begins doing the same for someone else, with increasingly complicated results, in this gentle comedy from China. Zhao (Zhao Benshan) is a guy in his early fifties who's out of work but still wants to marry his girlfriend (Dong Lifan). However, his Read More

Harvard Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Lauren Adams, Eric Stoltz, Rebecca Gayheart

Synopsis: Director and screenwriter James Toback used his own experiences as a college student in the 1960s as the basis for this drama about a present-day student athlete who's bitten off more than he can chew. Alan Jensen (Adrian Grenier) is a college sophomore struggling to keep up with an unusually busy Read More

C-Murder: Straight From the Projects - Rappers That Live the Lyrics

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Some rappers simply talk about the lifestyle, and other rappers live it. From his trying childhood in a crime-ridden New Orleans housing project to the nightclubs where he first began to develop his unique style on the microphone, rapper C-Murder returns to his roots to discover the influences and Read More

M.O.P.: Straight From the Projects

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Straight From the Projects is a series of video releases. Each episode in the series documents a visit from a rap act to their hometown. This edition showcases M.O.P. as they lead viewers through the mean streets of Brownsville, Brooklyn. This documentary is hosted by Cypress Hill's B-Real. Read More

A Question of Faith

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Naveen Andrews, Jorge Cervera, Jr., Michael Cudlitz, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: A comic fable centered around the lives of contemporary Catholic monks, A Question of Faith (once called Blessed Art Thou) follows Brother Anselm (M.E. Hackett), who suddenly finds himself pregnant. Living in a rural California monastery, Anselm believes the miracle was created out of a visit from Read More

The Crow: Salvation

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Eric Mabius, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, William Atherton, Fred Ward

Synopsis: The third installment of The Crow series, The Crow: Salvation opens with the electrocution of death row inmate Alex Corvis (Eric Mabius) on his 21st birthday. Falsely convicted of the brutal stabbing murder of his girlfriend Lauren (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) three years earlier, Alex spent the duration of Read More

American Psycho

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis

Synopsis: Bret Easton Ellis' dark and violent satire of America in the 1980s is brought to the screen in this unsettling drama with black comic overtones. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father's firm. Bateman is the Read More

Black and White

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rory Cochrane, Ron Silver, Gina Gershon, Scott Caan, Robert Downey, Jr., Stacy Edwards, Allan Houston, Gaby Hoffmann, Brooke Shields, Ben Stiller, Elijah Wood

Synopsis: The inner workings of the New York hip-hop scene, and the fascination of white observers with rap music and hip-hop culture, set the stage for this drama written and directed by James Toback. Rich Bower (Power) is a mover and shaker in the world of rap music (he's involved with a number of other Read More

New Rose Hotel

Crew: Producer

Actors: Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Yoshitaka Amano, Annabella Sciorra

Synopsis: Abel Ferrara directed this erotic thriller adapted by Ferrara and Christ Zois from a short story by science fiction author William Gibson (in his Burning Chrome collection). Global corporations rule the world, and corporate raider Fox (Christopher Walken) and his deputy X (Willem Dafoe) could Read More

Endurance

Crew: Producer

Actors: Haile Gebrselassie, Shawananness Gebrselassie, Yonas Zergaw, Tedesse Haile, Gebrselassie Bekele

Synopsis: Veteran ethnographic documentarian Leslie Woodhead helmed this U.S.-British docudrama about Ethiopian long-distance runner Haile Gebrselassie (with the Atlanta Olympic games sequence directed by Bud Greenspan). Gebrselassie won the gold medal in the men's 10,000-meters race at the 1996 Atlanta Read More

Legionnaire

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jim Carter, Nicholas Farrell, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff

Synopsis: Action hero Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in this globe-trotting adventure set in the 1920s. Van Damme plays Alain, a carefree French playboy who makes the mistake of getting involved with the girlfriend of a notorious Mob kingpin. Running for his life, Alain decides to hide out in a time-tested Read More

Du Sollst Nicht Toeten

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Kai Wiesinger, Götz George, Karoline Eichhorn, Doris Schade, Peter Roggisch

Synopsis: While a number of American and European films have examined the horrible legacy of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, Du Sollst Nicht Toeten is one of the first dramatic films from Germany to examine the crimes of the Nazi era and their impact on the German psyche. Peter Rohm (Kai Wiesinger) is a Read More

The Blackout

Crew: Producer

Actors: Béatrice Dalle, Matthew Modine, Dennis Hopper, Claudia Schiffer, Sarah Lassez

Synopsis: Cult figure Abel Ferrara directed this typically edgy look at an actor whose abuse of alcohol and drugs takes an unexpected toll. Matty (Matthew Modine) is an actor whose career is on the fast track; however, he's not able to handle the pressures of life in Hollywood, so he heads to Miami to Read More

Two Girls and a Guy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Heather Graham, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Angel David, Frederique Van Der Wal

Synopsis: In this darkly comic tale of love and infidelity, Carla (Heather Graham) and Lou (Natasha Gregson Wagner) are both waiting outside an brownstone in Soho and happen to strike up a conversation. It seems both of them are waiting to meet their respective boyfriends, and as they discuss the bright Read More

The Winter Guest

Crew: Producer

Actors: Phyllida Law, Emma Thompson, Gary Hollywood, Arlene Cockburn, Sheila Reid

Synopsis: Adapted from a stage play by Sharman McDonald, this film marks the directorial debut of British character actor Alan Rickman. Set against a bleak winter landscape of rural Scotland, the story centers around the recently widowed Frances (Emma Thompson) and a visit from her mother, Elspeth (Phyllida Law Read More

City Hall

Crew: Producer

Actors: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, Martin Landau

Synopsis: Three A-list screenwriters -- (Nicholas Pileggi, Bo Goldman, and Paul Schrader) -- contributed to the script of this idealistic political drama. John Pappas (Al Pacino) is the popular, ethical Mayor of New York; Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack) is his even more idealistic and principled deputy. When a Read More

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: On a remote tropical island, Dr. Moreau has appointed himself ruler over a menagerie of genetic mutants fashioned in his gene-splicing chamber of horrors. The products of his misguided attempt to create a more "pure" human species, the man-beasts worship Moreau as their god and "father" and live Read More

The Crow: City of Angels

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, Richard Brooks, Iggy Pop, Thomas Jane

Synopsis: It is said that when a man dies wrongfully, a crow may bring him back to life to seek vengeance upon his killer. Like the first Crow, this revenge saga is set in a fantastical urban nightmare and is based upon the dark comic book stories of artist James O. Barr. The first film was set in a Read More

Judge Dredd

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Diane Lane, Rob Schneider, Joan Chen

Synopsis: A violent, effects-heavy science fiction adventure, Judge Dredd depicts a nightmarish future in which overcrowded cities are terrorized by brutal gun battles and policed by "Judges," law officers who act as judge, jury, and executioner. Sylvester Stallone stars as Judge Dredd, a punishing enforcer Read More

Street Fighter

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue

Synopsis: Based on the popular video game Street Fighter II, Street Fighter stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Col. Guile, the cocky but brave leader of an Allied Nations fighting force. When the evil General Bison (Raul Julia), the power-mad leader of Shadaloo, kidnaps a bus full of Allied Nations relief Read More

The Crow

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, David Patrick Kelly, Angel David

Synopsis: Based on the graphic novel by James O'Barr, this fantasy follows Eric Draven (Brandon Lee), a rock musician who is murdered along with his fiancée Shelly (Sofia Shinas) by a group of marauding thugs who terrorize the decaying city in which they live. One year to the day after his death (which Read More

Dream Lover

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Spader, Mädchen Amick, Bess Armstrong, Fredric Lehne, Larry Miller

Synopsis: A man discovers that what he doesn't know can hurt him, especially when it comes to his wife, in this suspense drama. Ray Reardon (James Spader) is an architect who has just gone through a messy divorce; while his friends sing the praises of the single life, Ray would prefer to settle into a life Read More

Hoffa

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh, John C. Reilly

Synopsis: The life of powerful union leader Jimmy Hoffa is the subject of this biographical drama. The focus is strongly on Hoffa's public and political life, from his early days as a labor organizer to his later conflicts with the Federal government -- and, eventually, his mysterious disappearance. ~ Judd Read More

Storyville

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Spader, Joanne Whalley, Jason Robards, Jr., Charlotte Lewis, Mike Warren, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: Mark Frost, the writer and director best known for his work with David Lynch on the TV series Twin Peaks, made his feature film directorial debut with this convoluted thriller. Cray Fowler (James Spader) is running for congress, partly to satisfy his own political aspirations and partly to resolve Read More

Bad Lieutenant

Crew: Producer

Actors: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Zoe Tamerlis, Anthony Ruggiero, Victoria Bastel, Eddie Daniels

Synopsis: If police lieutenant Harvey Keitel's life could get any more sordid, he could probably sell tickets. The least of his vices is gambling, which has gotten him in Dutch with the mob. He abuses his body with drugs and his soul with hookers, and now he's turned to exploiting teenage girls for sex. Keitel Read More

Iron Maze

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Bridget Fonda, Hiroaki Murakami, J.T. Walsh, Gabriel Damon

Synopsis: Iron Maze updates the Akira Kurosawa Rashomon tale and works it into a story involving the Japanese corporate takeover of a Pennsylvania steel mill. When Junich Sugita (Hiroaki Murakami), the son of a Japanese businessman, is found beaten to death in the steel mill just purchased by the father Read More

Year of the Gun

Crew: Producer

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone, John Pankow, Mattia Sbragia

Synopsis: In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend (Sharon Stone) Read More

Homicide

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, Natalia Nogulich, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Pidgeon

Synopsis: The third film written and directed by playwright David Mamet, this combination of crime drama and character study stars several of Mamet's stock players. Joe Mantegna stars as Bobby Gold, a detective with a gift for negotiation who, along with his partner Tim Sullivan (William H. Macy) Read More

Waiting for the Light

Crew: Producer

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Teri Garr, Hillary Wolf, Colin Baumgartner, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: Set during the Cuban missile crisis, Waiting for the Light is an off-beat comic tale about a single mother of two (Teri Garr) who has just taken over a roadside cafe with her aunt (Shirley MacLaine), a former circus magician. MacLaine and the children pull a prank on her crotchety next-door Read More

Reversal of Fortune

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen

Synopsis: This film is a darkly humorous, determinedly ambiguous adaptation of Alan Dershowitz's book about his successful legal appeal of Claus von Bulow's conviction for the attempted murder of his wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow. Sunny (Glenn Close) -- who remains in a "persistent vegetative state" Read More

To Sleep with Anger

Crew: Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Richard Brooks, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Carl Lumbly, Sheryl Lee Ralph

Synopsis: African-American drifter Danny Glover shows up at the LA doorstep of his old pal Paul Butler. In the spirit of auld lang syne, Butler takes Glover in, though his wife (Mary Alice) is not happy with this intrusion. She already has enough on her hands contending with her grown live-in son Richard Brooks Read More

Martians Go Home!

Crew: Producer

Actors: Randy Quaid, Margaret Colin, Anita Morris, John Philbin, Gerritt Graham

Synopsis: In the film adapted from a book by Frederic Brown, a music composer (Randy Quaid) receives an invitation to score an upcoming science-fiction film. When the piece is accidentally broadcast on the radio, it encourages a rather pedestrian invasion force from Mars. The legion of green men instead Read More

Blue Steel

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom Sizemore in a small role) is holding Read More

Paris by Night

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Robert Hardy, Iain Glen, Andrew Ray, Jane Asher

Synopsis: British playwright David Hare both wrote and directed the complicated political melodrama Paris By Night. Charlotte Rampling plays a Tory member of the European parliament, who lets absolutely nothing get in way of her ambitions. At present, Rampling is convinced that she is being blackmailed by Read More

Talk Radio

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: Monologist Eric Bogosian's one-man theatre piece Talk Radio, co-written by Bogosian and Ted Savinar, is searingly brought to the screen by Oliver Stone. Bogosian plays a provocateur radio talk-show host, whose constant espousal of his inflammatory views and ceaseless hectoring of his Read More

Cherry 2000

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Ben Johnson, Tim Thomerson, Brion James, Harry Carey, Jr.

Synopsis: In this arch sci-fi sex comedy-cum-action extravaganza, a hard-nosed female mercenary helps a hapless yuppie find a new body for his robot girlfriend in the post-industrial wasteland of the American Southwest. In the year 2017, what little remains of civilization feeds off the scrap heap of 20th Read More

Wall Street

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: "Greed is Good." This is the credo of the aptly named Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), the antihero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Gekko, a high-rolling corporate raider, is idolized by young-and-hungry broker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen). Inveigling himself into Gekko's inner circle, Fox quickly learns Read More

Walker

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Ed Harris, Marlee Matlin, Peter Boyle, Keith Szarabajka, Blanca Guerra, Sy Richardson, Richard Masur

Synopsis: Alex Cox directed this hallucinatory bio-pic starring Ed Harris as 19th-century American adventurer William Walker, who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and eventually a Nicaraguan dictator. When his deaf wife (Marlee Matlin) Read More

Masters of the Universe

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Meg Foster, Billy Barty, Courteney Cox Arquette

Synopsis: Dolph Lundgren stars in this live-action film version of the popular television cartoon series (based on a collection of Mattel action figures). Lundgren is He-Man, a well-muscled super-hero, battling the evil Skeletor (Frank Langella) for control of the universe. Skeletor has designs on Read More

Good Morning, Babylon

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Omero Antonutti

Synopsis: The always innovative Taviani Brothers pay homage to another unique filmmaker, D. W. Griffith, in Good Morning, Babylon. Vincent Spano and Joaquim de Almeida star as Nicola and Andrea Bonnano, the latest in a long line of Tuscany-born cathedral builders. Emigrating to America, the brothers settle Read More

Flicks

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Pamela Sue Martin, Joan Hackett, Martin Mull, Betty Kennedy, Richard Belzer

Synopsis: Never released in the theaters, this film consists of a series of short skits and parodies of television and the movies, and stars Richard Belzer, Martin Mull, and Harry Shearer. The film's 1981 production date explains the presence of Joan Hackett, who died in 1983. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Read More

True Stories

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David Byrne, John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, Alix Elias

Synopsis: Director David Byrne (of Talking Heads) takes an outside-looking-in glance at Texas and Texans in True Stories. Casting himself as the protagonist/narrator, Byrne adopts what he thinks is "standard" western garb and drives his red convertible into the small town of Virgil. Here he observes the Read More

Half Moon Street

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine, Patrick Kavanagh, Keith Buckley, Nadim Sawalha

Synopsis: Based on Paul Theroux's Doctor Slaughter, Half-Moon Street is motivated by the moneymaking schemes of the heroine, PhD researcher Laura Slaughter (Sigourney Weaver). Stuck in a low-paying government job in London, Laura decides to increase her bank account by working for what is euphemistically Read More

Crimewave

Crew: Producer

Actors: Reed Birney, Sheree J. Wilson, Louise Lasser, Paul L. Smith, Brion James

Synopsis: In a slapstick spoof of hitmen and crime stories, the head of a security systems company (Hamid Dana) is bumped off by two gonzo exterminators (Brion James and Paul L. Smith) who have gone from stomping out pesky varmints to stomping out human targets, and one of them does so with gusto. Now the Read More

Plenty

Crew: Producer

Actors: Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracey Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting

Synopsis: Plenty boasts a cast of actors ranging from John Gielgud as an ethical and caustic senior diplomat to Meryl Streep as Susan Traherne, a woman looking for solace and a decent life in the aftermath of World War II. After World War II has ended, along with her work in the French Resistance movement Read More

Conan the Destroyer

Crew: Producer

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Mako, Tracey Walter

Synopsis: Based on a character created by Robert E. Howard, this fast-paced, occasionally humorous sequel to Conan the Barbarian features the hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger) as he is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis (Sarah Douglas) to safely escort a teen princess (Olivia D'Abo) and her powerful Read More

The Pirates of Penzance

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt, George Rose, Rex Smith

Synopsis: Joseph Papp's notion of staging one of Gilbert and Sullivan's best-loved operettas with two pop singers (Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith) in the leads paid off as a surprise Broadway smash in the early 1980s, and this film faithfully reproduces Papp's production, featuring most of the original cast Read More

Conan the Barbarian

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman, Ben Davidson

Synopsis: John Milius's jingoistic direction and pulpy screenplay fit perfectly into this film version of the Robert E. Howard fantasy story of the sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. Complementing Mulius's heavy metal production is Arnold Schwarzenegger's leaden acting, which in any other context Read More

Das Boot

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge

Synopsis: Das Boot is one of the most gripping and authentic war movies ever made. Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, the film follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as they patrol the Atlantic Read More

The Hand

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe, Bruce McGill, Viveca Lindfors, Mara Hobel

Synopsis: Oliver Stone's first directorial effort for a major studio (and his second horror film after the 1974 Seizure) came shortly after the phenomenal success of Midnight Express, which was based on Stone's Oscar-winning screenplay. The director turned to Mark Brandel's obscure thriller "The Lizard's Read More

Heart Beat

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard, Ray Sharkey, Anne Dusenberry

Synopsis: John Byrum wrote and directed this loosely based biographical tale of Beat author Jack Kerouac and Neal and Carolyn Cassady. John Heard stars as Jack Kerouac, and the film chronicles the Beat lifestyle that shaped the literary and social forces brewing and overflowing in Kerouac's imagination Read More

Old Boyfriends

Crew: Producer

Actors: Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine, John Belushi, John Houseman

Synopsis: Noted screenwriter Joan Tewksbury made her directorial debut with this bittersweet comedy-drama. Diane Cruise (Talia Shire), a psychologist going through a severe depression, takes a long look at her life after attempting to commit suicide. Diane decides to pay a visit to her former boyfriends in Read More

Despair

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Volker Spengler, Klaus Löwitsch

Synopsis: Having made as many films as he had years, at 31, Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd film, Despair. Here, he uses a witty screenplay written by the well-known playwright Tom Stoppard, based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Furthermore, the entire film, set Read More

Paradise Alley

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Conway, Anne Archer, Armand Assante, Joe Spinell, Lee Canalito

Synopsis: Film auteur Sylvester Stallone wrote, directed, and stars in this re-working of Rocky to fit an old-fashioned Hollywood formula, depicting three brothers from New York's Hell's Kitchen of the 1940s who want to claw their way out of poverty. Lee Canalito is the muscle-brained iceman Victor, and Armand Assante Read More

Phantom of the Paradise

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, George Memmoli, Gerritt Graham

Synopsis: "He sold his soul for rock-n-roll," read the tagline for Brian De Palma's satirical Phantom of the Opera for the '70s rock scene. After hearing Winslow Leach (William Finley) perform a song from his Faust rock opera, Phil Spector-ish impresario Swan (Paul Williams) decides that Winslow's opera Read More

Badlands

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Alan Vint, Ramon Bieri

Synopsis: "He wanted to die with me and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms." A young couple goes on a Midwest crime spree in Terrence Malick's hypnotically assured debut feature, based on the 1950s Starkweather-Fugate murders. Fancying himself a rebel like James Dean, twentysomething Kit (Martin Sheen Read More

Sisters

Crew: Producer

Actors: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Lisle Wilson

Synopsis: A reporter gets more than she bargained for when she tries to prove that a murder has occurred in Brian De Palma's disturbing thriller. Danielle (Margot Kidder) meets Phillip (Lisle Wilson) on a "Peeping Tom"-themed game show and, dodging her ex-husband Emil (William Finley), takes him back to her Read More

Dealing: or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues

Crew: Producer

Actors: Charles Durning, Barbara Hershey, Buzzy Linhart, John Lithgow, Robert F. Lyons, Demond Wilson

Synopsis: Years before Coma, Jurassic Park, and Twister made him a household name, Michael Crichton co-wrote this amiable drug-oriented comedy, based on a novel Crichton co-authored with his brother Douglas under the pen name Michael Douglas. Peter (Robert F. Lyons) is a shaggy but straightlaced Harvard law Read More

The Revolutionary

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jon Voight, Jennifer Salt, Seymour Cassel, Robert Duvall, Collin Wilcox-Horne

Synopsis: In this symbolic drama of social and political turmoil, Jon Voight plays an aspiring revolutionary (who is only known as "A") working in a print shop. He lives with his bohemian girlfriend (Collin Wilcox-Horne) and studies philosophy at the local university. Despard (Robert Duvall) is his alleged Read More

Out of It

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Barry J. Gordon, Jon Voight, Lada Edmund Jr., Gretchen Corbett, Peter Grad

Synopsis: High school students struggle for social status and acceptance from the opposite sex in Out Of It. Paul (Barry Gordon) is the shy boy who asks the blonde cheerleader Christine (Lada Edmund Jr.) for a date. The two see Romeo and Juliet, but Christine tells Paul she is feeling ill. After he brings Read More