Gary BuseyFilmography

Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew: Season 02

Actors: Drew Pinsky

Synopsis: Season two of the popular reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew begins with the same premise as the first season: to film the three week rehabilitation process of a group of celebrities, facilitated by widely respected internist and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. The Read More

National Lampoon's Stoned Age

Actors: Adam Rifkin, Ali Larter, Hayes MacArthur, David Carradine, Gary Busey

Synopsis: A philosophical caveman discovers that there's more to life than sticks, stones, and brontosaurus burgers in this prehistoric comedy from cult director Adam Rifkin (The Dark Backward). Ishbo (Rifkin) isn't your average hunter/gatherer; in a world dominated by Neanderthals, his fellow tribe members Read More

National Lampoon's Homo Erectus

Actors: Adam Rifkin, Ali Larter, David Carradine, Talia Shire

Synopsis: Detroit Rock City's Adam Rifkin writes, directs, and stars in National Lampoon's Homo Erectus, a prehistoric comedy surrounding a caveman and his plight to find love while leading his clan. Ali Larter plays the love interest, with David Carradine and Talia Shire portraying Rifkin's parents. Cameos Read More

Valley of the Wolves - Irak

Actors: Necati Sasmaz, Billy Zane, Ghassan Massoud, Berguzar Korel, Gurkan Uygun

Synopsis: A Turkish special agent vows revenge against the evil American CIA agent who masterminded the humiliating raid on an undercover Turkish unit aiding the War on Terror in director Serdar Akar's controversial action film. It was July 4, 2003, when U.S. forces surrounded the headquarters of a Read More

Maneater

Actors: Gary Busey, Ian D. Clark, Ty Wood, Marina Stephenson-Kerr, Diana Reis

Synopsis: When a hungry tiger begins terrorizing a peaceful small town, it's up to the fearless sheriff (Gary Busey) to take the ravenous predator down in this made for television thriller that brings the terror of Jaws out of the ocean and onto dry land. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film

Synopsis: Actor Nick Nolte narrates this detailed look at the life and career of Hunter S. Thompson - the late, great Gonzo journalist whose outrageous exploits inspired such films as Where the Buffalo Roam, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Rum Diaries. A true American original, Thompson was a writer Read More

Succubus: Hell Bent

Synopsis: A jet-setting playboy finds his life turned upside-down by a real-life succubus in this tale of Spring Break terror starring Gary Busey, David Keith, Lorenzo Lamas, and Kelly Hu. Adam (Robert Mann) is a spoiled trust-fund baby who will sleep with any girl in sight. Lilith (Natalie Denise Sperl) is Read More

Into the West

Actors: Matthew Settle, Josh Brolin, Skeet Ulrich, Keri Russell, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the sprawling six-part, 12-hour TV miniseries Into the West covers 65 years of American history, from the first major migration westward in the mid-1820s to the massacre at Wounded Knee in the early 1890s. The story is largely seen through the eyes of two Read More

Chasing Ghosts

Actors: Michael Madsen

Synopsis: When a weary detective on the verge of retirement begins receiving ominous messages from a sadistic serial killer determined to stir up the past, the stage is set for a deadly confrontation in an all-star crime drama featuring Michael Madsen, Gary Busey, Meat Loaf, and Michael Rooker. Years on the Read More

Shut Up and Shoot!

Actors: Silvio Pollio, Joe Cortese

Synopsis: A sleazy movie producer hatches a plan to shake the entire movie industry in this dark satire of Tinseltown politics featuring Gary Busey, Joe Estevez, James Russo, and John Savage. Underhanded producer Spencer Spector (Joseph Cortese) isn't above resorting to mischief in order to turn out a Read More

Crooked

Actors: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Gary Busey, Fred Williamson, Olivier Gruner

Synopsis: When a high-class call girl witnesses a brutal murder with the potential to shake the police department, the state department, and the entire criminal underworld, it's up to two rival cops to see that she survives at all costs in this bullet-riddled action entry starring Fred Williamson, Gary Read More

The Hard Easy

Actors: Henry Thomas, David Boreanaz, Vera Farmiga, Gary Busey, Peter Weller

Synopsis: Henry Thomas and David Boreanez play two uniquely different men with one very similar problem in director Ari Ryan's fast-paced crime thriller. Paul Weston (Thomas) and Roger Hargitay (Boreanez) are perfect strangers, but their deep debts are about to place them on very familiar terms. With little Read More

The Gingerdead Man

Actors: Margaret Blye, Larry Cedar, Gary Busey

Synopsis: A deranged psychopath returns from the grave in the form of a delicious but deadly treat in B-movie specialist Charles Band's bloody tale of baked goods gone bad. When psychotic killer Millard Findlemeyer (Gary Busey) entered a small-town diner and rained a shower of lead upon the Leigh family Read More

Moto X Kids

Synopsis: Richard Gabai's family-friendly sports film Moto X Kids stars Lorenzo Lamas as Evan Hanson, a motocross coach. His daughter, Callie (Alan Austin), is one of the best racers in the country. They must win a more personal contest when a biker gang threatens to take over their hometown racetrack. The Read More

Scorched

Actors: Daniella Evangelista, Brandon Kleyla, Gary Busey, Andy Dick

Biography: Keanu Reeves

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Gary Busey, Alice Cooper

El Padrino: The Latin Godfather

Synopsis: Kilo was born into a life of crime. By the time he was an adult, he was a full-time dealer, and when he meets Sabeva, the daughter of a Colombian drug kingpin, he reaches the upper levels of drug trafficking. It is a dangerous business, however, and eventually Kilo ends up in prison. Still running Read More

Entourage: Busey and the Beach

Synopsis: Vince and his buddies meet Ari's rival at a Malibu beach party; Turtle gets under Gary Busey's skin at an art gallery. ~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide Read More

I'm With Busey [TV Series]

Actors: Gary Busey, Adam De La Pena

Synopsis: Like The Osbournes, this cable TV reality series zeroed in on the colorful private life of a sometimes dysfunctional, always unpredictable, and undeniably charismatic celebrity. In this case, the "star" was the irrepressible Gary Busey, who in each episode endeavored to teach "important life Read More

Ghost Rock

Actors: Gary Busey, Michael Worth, Jeff Fahey, Adrienne Barbeau

Synopsis: A boy grows to manhood with revenge on his mind in this martial arts-influenced Western. When John Slaughter (Michael Worth) was a boy, his family was killed by a gang of bloodthirsty outlaws. Twenty years on, Slaughter has become a sure hand with a gun and has learned the mysteries of Asian Read More

Quigley

Actors: Curtis Armstrong, Christopher Atkins, Gary Busey, Oz Perkins

Synopsis: William Byron Hillman's family comedy Quigley stars Gary Busey as a cold-hearted billionaire. Early in the film he dies. After dying, he learns that he will only get into heaven if he learns lessons about compassion and selflessness. In order to have a chance, he is reincarnated on Earth as a Read More

The Prize Fighter

Synopsis: A down and out boxer, a former champion, and an old-school promoter all get a second chance to prove their worth in this story about dreams and redemption. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Latin Dragon

Synopsis: Decorated war hero and covert agent Danny Silva may have faced hell on the battlefield, but that's nothing compared to what he'll face when he returns home in this explosive action entry starring Gary Busey and Lorenzo Lamas. When Silva (Lamas) returns to East L.A., he is shocked to discover that Read More

On the Edge

Actors: Gary Busey, Ice-T, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: Blaxploitation icon Fred Williamson directed and stars in this action thriller written by his wife, Linda. Amidst the rough-and-tumble drug-trade of the inner city, a young, well-intentioned basketball phenom gets in too deep. Before long, the gangsters come knocking and the teen's best friend Read More

Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Jessica Steen, Gary Busey

Synopsis: It's been 25 years and the minor league hockey team Charlestown Chiefs are still languishing in West Virginia. Player/coach Sean Linden (Stephen Baldwin) has taken the reins from Reggie Dunlop, but he's given up trying to control the "old school hockey" trio of the Hanson brothers (Jeff Carlson Read More

Sam & Janet

Actors: Ryan Brown, Jennifer Ferguson

Synopsis: Rick Walker's romantic drama Sam & Janet concerns two people recovering from disastrously failed marriages who meet and fall in love. Sam feels that he will never marry again after the dissolution of his first-marriage, while Janet still lives under the thumb of a husband who will not grant her a Read More

G-Men From Hell

Actors: William Forsythe, Tate Donovan, Bobcat Goldthwait, Barry Newman, Zach Galligan

Synopsis: Two bad cops rise from the grave in an attempt to go straight in this offbeat comedy. Mike Mattress (Tate Donovan) and Dean Crept (William Forsythe) are a pair of stone-faced FBI agents who are not above stretching the law to their advantage; their double dealings lead to their fiery death in a Read More

Law & Order: Formerly Famous

Synopsis: A well-publicized murder case involving a former TV detective-show star was the blatant inspiration for this episode. It all begins when the wife of has-been singer Tommy Vega (Gary Busey) is shot to death a few blocks from the couple's favorite restaurant. Early suspects include Tommy's manager Read More

The Huntress [TV Series]

Actors: Annette O'Toole, James Remar, Luis Ramos, Gary Busey

Synopsis: The family that tracks down bail-jumping bad guys together stays together, in this action-oriented drama series. Dottie Thorson (Annette O'Toole) hasn't quite gotten over the recent death of her husband when the realities of life on her own sink in -- she's deep in debt, and needs to come up with Read More

Best Actress

Actors: Andrew Airlie, Maria Conchita Alonso, Gary Busey, Thomas Calabro

Synopsis: E! Entertainment's debut original TV production is an over-the-top depiction of Hollywood decadence and desperation. Five down-and-out women vie for a major award. The five include a drugged-out indie queen; a plumy British actress with a womanizing director for a husband; a porn star looking for Read More

Tribulation

Actors: Gary Busey, Margot Kidder, Nick Mancuso, Howie Mandel

Synopsis: A cop used to chasing bad guys finds himself up against the ultimate villain of all time in this Christian-themed thriller. Tom Canburo (Gary Busey) is a police detective whose work doesn't leave him with much room in his life for the intangibles of faith. Tom's sister, Eileen (Margot Kidder) Read More

Down 'n Dirty

Actors: Fred Williamson, Bubba Smith, Gary Busey, David Carradine

Synopsis: Blaxploitation icon Fred Williamson produced, directed, and stars in this action thriller as Dakota Smith, a hard-nosed but scrupulously honest cop who has more than a few questions when his partner is murdered. As Smith sets out to find who killed his sidekick and bring him to justice, he Read More

A Crack in the Floor

Actors: Mario Lopez, Gary Busey, Bentley Mitchum

Synopsis: Some young people lost in the woods pick the wrong cabin while looking for help in this story of horror and suspense. Jeremiah (Rodger Hewlett) was raised by his mother (Tracy Scoggins), a woman with a paranoid fear of strangers and outsiders, in a small cabin in a remote woodland community. Read More

Hot Boyz

Synopsis: A kid from the inner city tries to find his way through corruption, crime and injustice. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Detour

Actors: Gary Busey, Jeff Fahey, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: A con artist and his friends join an attempt to steal from the local organized crime syndicate, which they discover turns out to be a set up. The group escapes and they hide out at the thief's newly inherited dairy farm. While reconsidering their chosen profession and deciding to become Read More

Suspicious Minds

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Jayne Heitmeyer, Gary Busey, Vittorio Rossi, Daniel Pilon

Synopsis: Money and lust make a dangerous combination in this thriller. Jack Ramsey (Patrick Bergin) is a private detective hired by wealthy businessman Richard Whitmore (Daniel Pilon) to trail his wife Isabelle (Jayne Heitmeyer). Richard is convinced Isabelle is having an affair, and Jack is able to Read More

No Tomorrow

Actors: Gary Busey, Gary Daniels, Jeff Fahey, Frank Zagarino, Master P, Pam Grier

Synopsis: Rap star Master P directed and stars in this action drama. Maker (Master P), a hip-hop music mogul and crime boss, helps broker a deal between Noah (Gary Busey), a major dealer in illegal arms, and a consortium of extremist groups. However, Maker was cut out of the loop at the last minute and he's Read More

Soldier

Actors: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee, Michael Chiklis

Synopsis: After scripting Blade Runner and Twelve Monkeys, David Webb Peoples continued to traverse the science fiction landscape with this action-adventure directed by Paul Anderson. A prologue shows infants classified 1A and placed in an academy promoting violent militarism. Spawned in such an Read More

Steel Sharks

Actors: Gary Busey, Billy Dee Williams, Billy Warlock, Tim Abell, Larry Poindexter

Synopsis: In this action-adventure, a hostage situation commands the presence of an elite cadre of Navy divers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms

Actors: Gary Busey, Chandra West

Synopsis: Literally picking up where the original Universal Soldier left off, this made-for-cable sequel (with Matt Battaglia taking over the role played by Jean Claude Van Damme in the original) concerns a soldier who has been forced to take part in a secret military operation. He schemes to expose the Read More

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Actors: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Craig Bierko, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey

Synopsis: Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream, about stoned sportswriter Raoul Duke, Thompson Read More

The Girl Next Door

Actors: Henry Czerny, Polly Shannon, Gary Busey

Synopsis: In this erotic tale of suspense, Arthur (Henry Czerny) is a middle-aged doctor with a successful practice and a happy marriage. However, none of this is much comfort to him when he becomes obsessed with Fiona (Polly Shannon), the 18-year-old daughter of his next door neighbor. Fiona's parents ask Read More

Two Shades of Blue

Actors: Gary Busey, Marlee Matlin, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Supermodel Rachel Hunter stars in this suspense story as Susan Price, a successful author whose latest novel has just hit #1 on the best-seller list. But Susan's celebration is short lived when her fiancée, publishing mogul Jack Reynolds (Gary Busey), is murdered, and it quickly becomes obvious Read More

Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang

Actors: Gary Busey, Miranda Richardson, Ice-T, Mark McKinney, Max Morrow, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: Based on noted Montreal author Mordecai Richler's classic children's adventure of the same name, the film is about a boy named Jacob (Max Morrow) who has to say everything twice to be heard, simply because he is the youngest of five children. Desperately needing to be taken seriously, he offers to Read More

Diary of a Serial Killer

Actors: Gary Busey, Michael Madsen, Arnold Vosloo, Julia Campbell

Synopsis: An investigative journalist becomes intrigued by a serial killer after looking at the criminal's latest victim. In attempting to see the world through the eyes of the maniacal murderer, the reporter becomes so like him that he finds himself falsely accused of the murders. While he attempts to Read More

Lost Highway

Actors: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Five years after the critical and commercial disappointment of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with this cryptic thriller about confused identities and erotic obsession. Fred (Bill Pullman) is an avant-garde jazz saxophonist who shares a luxurious but Read More

Rough Riders

Actors: Tom Berenger, Sam Elliott, Gary Busey, Brad Johnson, Illeana Douglas

Synopsis: The real-life story of Teddy Roosevelt's role in the Spanish-American war is re-told in this made-for-television movie. Tom Berenger stars as Roosevelt, who in 1898 formed his own volunteer calvary to go into Cuba and fight the expansion of Spanish rule. Thousands of men from all walks of life Read More

Plato's Run

Actors: Jeff Speakman, Tiani Warden, Gary Busey, Roy Scheider, Steven Bauer

Synopsis: When a vicious arms smuggler (Roy Scheider) abducts his daughter, an ex-Navy Seal (Gary Busey) rounds up a cadre of skilled mercenaries to find and rescue her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rage

Actors: Lorenzo Lamas, Gary Busey, Kristen Cloke, Roy Scheider, Brandon Smith

Synopsis: This silly, over-the-top action film has a great hammy performance by Gary Busey as the insane leader of a militia group intent on revenge against the government for doing psychotropic experiments on them after Vietnam. Busey also had his privates mutilated by a Viet-Cong prostitute, so he's a Read More

Lethal Tender

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Gary Busey, Kim Coates, Carrie-Anne Moss, Denis Akiyama

Synopsis: When a mad criminal and his commandos take over Chicago's water filtration plant and threaten to poison the entire city, it is up to one brave detective to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Livers Ain't Cheap

Actors: James Russo, Emily Lloyd, Gary Busey, Jeremy Piven, Esai Morales

Synopsis: This action-packed crime drama features one of the more interesting motives in the genre: the crooks plan a $1million caper to pay for a another young crook's liver transplant. The mayhem begins as Dexter is yet again hauled to jail after the police catch him attempting to snatch a purse. There Read More

Sticks and Stones

Synopsis: In this youthful drama, three 13 year olds come of age when they learn to stand up to a vicious local bully. Joey, Book and Mouth live for baseball. Joey is a superb pitcher and Book an excellent catcher while Mouth dreams of becoming Joey's agent. All three boys have less than perfect home lives Read More

Chain

Actors: Gary Busey, Victor Rivers, Rez Cortez, Joonee Gamboa, Craig Walter Judd

Synopsis: In this fast-paced action thriller, an American cop is forced to rely on the man he has sworn to destroy when both are chained together and lost in the Central American jungle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Sheep

Actors: Chris Farley, David Spade, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Handsome, smooth-talking Al Donnelly (Tim Matheson) has everything going for him. A politician, he is engaged in a heated gubernatorial race with the feisty Governor Tracy (Christine Ebersole), a tough old bird who doesn't hesitate to play hardball with opponents. Unfortunately for her, things are Read More

Carried Away

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving, Amy Locane, Julie Harris, Gary Busey

Synopsis: Based on the novel Farmer by Jim Harrison, this drama concerns Joseph Svenden (Dennis Hopper), a one-time farmer in his late forties who took up teaching when he permanently injured his leg in an accident. Joseph's life is orderly, precise, and rather dull. He teaches with as much enthusiasm as he Read More

Man with a Gun

Actors: Michael Madsen, Jennifer Tilly, Gary Busey, Robert Loggia, Ian Tracey

Synopsis: In this noirish thriller, a world-weary hit-man is assigned by his boss to kill his own lover and steal from her a valuable CD-Rom. When killer Hardin tells evil Rena about the grim assignment from his boss Rushton, she makes a suggestion. Instead of killing her, why don't they shoot her angelic Read More

Chasers

Actors: Tom Berenger, Erika Eleniak, William McNamara, Crispin Glover, Gary Busey, Matthew Glave

Synopsis: In director Dennis Hopper's comedy reminiscent of The Last Detail, Rock Reilly (Tom Berenger), a gruff naval veteran who plays by the rules, arrives at a Marine base, in tow with his wheeler-dealer companion Eddie Devane (William McNamara), and finds himself assigned to escort the voluptuous Toni Read More

Surviving the Game

Actors: Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: The Richard Connell short story, The Most Dangerous Game, has been adapted for the screen many times. In this updated version, the rapper-actor Ice-T plays Mason, a homeless man whose best friend and his dog both die on the same day. Cole (Charles S. Dutton, a relief worker, tells Mason that Read More

Warriors

Actors: Gary Busey, Michael Paré

Synopsis: Gary Busey stars in this Canadian ultra-macho Rambo-knockoff in which a crazed blood-thirsty sociopath escapes from an asylum and sets out to kill his former commander. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Drop Zone

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler, Michael Jeter, Corin Nemec

Synopsis: Wesley Snipes is battling bad guys in the air again, this time with parachutes, in this action-packed suspense thriller. Pete Nessip (Snipes) is a Federal Marshall who, teamed with his brother Terry (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), is escorting criminal computer genius Earl Leedy (Michael Jeter) to a new Read More

Rookie of the Year

Actors: Gary Busey, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Albert Hall, Amy Morton, Dan Hedaya, Bruce Altman

Synopsis: Rookie of the Year is a light-hearted comedy about a 12-year-old baseball fan who, despite his love for the sport, can't play the game at all. During one Little League contest, he breaks his arm. After it heals, it miraculously becomes a super-human arm that can out-pitch any player in the major Read More

Breaking Point

Actors: Gary Busey, Kim Cattrall, Darlanne Fluegel

Synopsis: Gary Busey and Kim Cattrall star in this erotic thriller about a twisted serial killer known only as "The Surgeon." A police officer with a troubled past is assigned to track him down before he can kill again. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Fallen Angels, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This film noir style, made-for-TV movie contains three parts, each based on stories by three different authors (Jim Thompson, Cornell Woolrich, and James Elroy). It looks as if a con-artist (Peter Gallagher) has finally met someone who can pull the wool over his eyes in "The Frightening Frammis." Read More

The Firm

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney, Ed Harris

Synopsis: In this drama, based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, Mitch McDeer (Tom Cruise) is a young man from a poor Southern family who has struggled through Harvard Law School to graduate fifth in his class. Mitch is entertaining offers from major firms in New York and Chicago, but when Read More

Under Siege

Actors: Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak, Patrick O'Neal

Synopsis: Andrew Davis directed this exciting thriller starring Steven Seagal, sans ponytail, and featuring electric, over-the-top performances by Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones. This action saga takes place on the battleship USS Missouri, about to be decommissioned from service after a visit from George Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

South Beach

Actors: Gary Busey, Peter Fonda, Fred Williamson, Robert Forster

Synopsis: One of Fred Williamson's more unusual efforts as both actor and director, this one features the action star as a cigar-smoking detective named Mac Derringer. He is enlisted by his ex-wife (Vanity), a phone-sex operator, to catch the masked psychopath who murdered her co-worker. With the aid of Read More

Chrome Soldiers

Actors: Gary Busey, Ray Sharkey, William Atherton, Yaphet Kotto, Norm Skaggs

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable actioner a quintet of Vietnam vets team up and hop on their Harleys to round up a no-good gang of drug dealers from their tiny home town. They also take on the town's crooked politicians. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Canvas: The Fine Art of Crime

Synopsis: Director Alain Zaloum cowrote the screenplay of Canvas: The Fine Art of Crime with Brenda Newman. Gary Busey plays Ossie Decker, an aspiring artist with a genius for forgery. Decker goes to work for mob functionary John Rhys-Davies, the better to pay off a debt of honor owed by Decker's brother. Read More

Point Break

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: Kathryn Bigelow's fourth action film follows FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) as he goes undercover to infiltrate a cache of Southern California surfers suspected of robbing banks. Utah, a former football player, is assigned to Los Angeles. There, four bank robbers, who wear rubber masks and Read More

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Actors: Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Balthazar Getty, Tess Harper

Synopsis: Scott Glenn is H.D., a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Julie (Kate Capshaw) is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl (Tess Harper) Read More

Wild Texas Wind

Actors: Gary Busey, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton

Synopsis: Dolly Parton goes dramatic in Wild Texas Wind--with plenty or songs in her repertoire to gloss over the script's shortcomings. This made-for-TV movie costars a curiously hammy Gary Busey as the manager of a country western band fronted by Parton. Through his business acumen, Parton's aggregation Read More

Predator 2

Actors: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton

Synopsis: This special effects-heavy science fiction sequel moves the action from the first film's Amazon forest to the urban jungle of L.A. Danny Glover stars as Lt. Mike Harrigan, an LAPD detective baffled by his latest case, the ritualistic slaughter of several drug dealers by a devastating killer who Read More

Hider in the House

Actors: Gary Busey, Mimi Rogers, Michael McKean, Kurt Christopher Kinder, Elizabeth Ruscio, Candy Hutson

Synopsis: Hider in the House is a well-made and produced but ultimately unsatisfying and formulaic slasher thriller. Tom (Gary Busey) was an abused child who learned to avoid the abuse by hiding under sinks, in closets or anywhere he could be out of sight. After spending 10 years in a mental institution for Read More

A Dangerous Life

Synopsis: Dangerous Life originated as a six-hour HBO miniseries about the 1986 Philippine revolution. Gary Busey stars as an American TV journalist, on the scene when the tempestuous situation in Manila boils over. He puts his own life on the line to get the inside story of the overthrow of the Marcos Read More

Act of Piracy

Actors: Gary Busey, Belinda Bauer, Ray Sharkey, Nancy Mulford, Arnold Vosloo

Synopsis: Ray Sharkey makes one of his last film appearances in 1989's Act of Piracy. Sharkey plays a contemporary buccaneer whose cutthroat gang swipes contractor Gary Busey's technologically advanced yacht. The pirates also inadvertently abduct Busey's children, who remained hidden during the siege. With Read More

The Neon Empire

Synopsis: Novelist/journalist Pete Hammill was responsible for the screenplay of the two-part TV movie The Neon Empire. Ray Sharkey stars as a Bugsy Siegel-like New York gangster. It is Sharkey's dream to turn the sleepy Nevada town of Las Vegas into the gambling capital of the world. Part One, running 105 Read More

American Rider

Bulletproof

Actors: Gary Busey, Darlanne Fluegel, Henry Silva, Rene Enriquez

Synopsis: Frank McBain (Gary Busey) is a cop who earned the nickname of "bulletproof" from the dozens of shootings he has survived over his career. He is called on to retrieve a tank held by communists across the border of Mexico. The enemies are cardboard caricatures of Arabs, Russians, and Mexicans led by Read More

Lethal Weapon

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan, Tom Atkins

Synopsis: LA cop Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), whose wife has recently died, is a loose cannon with a seeming death wish. This makes him indispensable in collaring dangerous criminals, but a liability to any potential partners. Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover), a conservative family man who wants to stay alive Read More

Let's Get Harry

Actors: Michael Schoeffling, Thomas F. Wilson, Glenn Frey, Gary Busey, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: Stuart Rosenberg, under the guise of Alan Smithee, directed this action film concerning a soldier of fortune sent into a South American country to rescue a kidnapped American during a revolutionary upheaval. Harry Burk Jr. (Mark Harmon) and United States Ambassador Douglas (Bruce Gray) are held Read More

Half a Lifetime

Synopsis: Produced for Canadian television, Half a Lifetime stars David Carradine, Gary Busey, Nick Mancuso and Saul Rubinek. The story is set at a table where the four leads indulge in a high-stakes poker game. We soon learn that this table is where these overgrown "boys" have frittered away most of their Read More

Eye of the Tiger

Actors: Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Seymour Cassel, Bert Remsen, William Smith

Synopsis: The budget may be loftier, but Eye of the Tiger is essentially an up-to-date AIP motorcycle flick. Ex-convict Buck Mathews (Gary Busey) lives as quietly as possible in his old home town. The corrupt local sheriff (Seymour Cassel) would give anything to drive Buck out of town: thus, the sheriff Read More

Insignificance

Actors: Gary Busey, Tony Curtis, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Will Sampson

Synopsis: Using four famous but unnamed individuals to symbolize a notorious era in American politics, as well as to explore the nature of despair, director Nicolas Roeg has created an intriguing drama. Based on a play by Terry Johnson, the story begins with the blond Theresa Russell as a sex-goddess Read More

Hitchhiker, Vol. 1

Synopsis: Page Fletcher stars as the title character in this 1983-1988 made-for-cable suspense anthology. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Silver Bullet

Actors: Gary Busey, Corey Haim, Megan Follows, Everett McGill, Terry O'Quinn

Synopsis: In this undistinguished Stephen King horror adaptation, the good residents of Tarker's Mill are dense enough to ignore or explain away a series of violent deaths until a little boy is torn to pieces while flying his kite after dark. At that point, the men gang up and go into the fog-shrouded woods Read More

The Bear

Actors: Cynthia Leake, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon-Erik Hexum, Carmen Thomas

Synopsis: Aimed primarily at American football fans, this dramatized biography of Paul Bryant, a celebrated football coach nicknamed the "Bear," focuses on the man's early career as a player and his later work as a coach in the locker rooms and on the field with his own players -- in Kentucky, Texas, and Read More

The Hitchhiker [TV Series]

Synopsis: Among the first original anthology series to be produced for cable television, The Hitchhiker was a collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre. The title character, played during the first season by Nicholas Campbell and thereafter by Page Fletcher, was an unnamed drifter who wandered Read More

D.C. Cab

Actors: Adam Baldwin, Charlie Barnett, Irene Cara, Anne de Salvo, Max Gail

Synopsis: In this casual, uninvolved comedy running on a low-octane script, a scruffy taxi company is about to be wiped out when its owner Harold (Max Gail) exhorts his cabbies to do what they can to help save the company -- and what they can do turns out to be a surprise to everyone concerned. Saving the Read More

Didn't You Hear?

Synopsis: In this comedy, a Walter-Mitty-esque college youth creates a fabulous daydream world when he finds himself increasingly unable to relate to real life. In his own La-La land, he pretends that he commands a sailing ship. With a crew comprised of schoolmates, they set sail for many adventures. Read More

Barbarosa

Actors: Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega, Gilbert Roland, Danny De La Paz

Synopsis: Barbarosa is a western starring the unlikely screen team of Willie Nelson and Gary Busey. Nelson is an outlaw, Busey his country-bumpkin buddy. They decide to ride together, since both are on the run from separate family feuds. Directed by Australian filmmaker Fred Schepisi, the screenplay for Read More

Carny

Actors: Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson, Elisha Cook, Jr., Meg Foster

Synopsis: In Robert Kaylor's Carny, the world of the carnival is an illusion manipulated by the carnies to fleece the suckers. The marks generally deserve what they get, because of their greed, corruption, or just plain stupidity. It's share and share alike for Frankie (Gary Busey) and Patch (Robbie Robertson Read More

Foolin' Around

Actors: Gary Busey, Annette O'Toole, Eddie Albert, Cloris Leachman, John Calvin

Synopsis: In a conventional, tried and true way, Foolin' Around tells the predictable story of a couple of widely divergent students who fall in love against all odds. Wes (Gary Busey) is attending a well-endowed college when he signs up for a psychology experiment and meets Susan (Annette O'Toole), a young Read More

Saturday Night Live: Gary Busey

Actors: Gary Busey, Gregory Hines, Eubie Blake

Synopsis: This 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by actor Gary Busey and features Gregory Hines and Eubie Blake as the musical guests. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Big Wednesday

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville, Lee Purcell

Synopsis: Jan-Michael Vincent plays a self-destructive beach bum to whom surfing is a Zen experience. We first meet Vincent in the devil-may-care 1960s, in the company of his carefree buddies William Katt and Gary Busey. The boys reunite ten years later, after one has served time in Vietnam. The beach is Read More

Straight Time

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: Paroled criminal Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) is compelled to withstand the calculated cruelties of slimy parole officer Earl Frank (M. Emmet Walsh). The more Max tries to go straight, the more he is defeated by circumstance or hectored by the sadistic Frank. It becomes clear after a while that Read More

The Buddy Holly Story

Actors: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Maria Richwine

Synopsis: From the time he was a high-school student in Lubbock, Texas until his tragic death at age 22 in 1959, Buddy Holly ignored the condemnation by townspeople and his conservative relatives and dedicated his life to the new music he became famous for performing: rock 'n roll. Gary Busey stars as Buddy Holly Read More

A Star Is Born

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Mazursky, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark

Synopsis: The third remake of the 1932 drama What Price Hollywood?, this adaptation of A Star Is Born moved the story into the mid-1970's and changed the milieu from the movie business to pop music. John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) is a rock star whose career has peaked; he is numbed by booze and Read More

The Gumball Rally

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Norman Burton, Gary Busey, John Durren, Susan Flannery

Synopsis: For better or worse, The Gumball Rally was the catalyst for a short-lived cycle of "illegal cross-country race" flicks. As thick-headed cop Roscoe (Norman Burton) does his best to stop the titular rally, a vast and varied contingent of contestants prepare to burn rubber from New York to Read More

Baretta: On the Road

Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: A pre-One Day at a Time Mackenzie Phillips guest stars as Mindy, a runaway teenager. Undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) manages to catch up to Mindy and to handcuff himself to the girl. Anxious to return to headquarters, Baretta and Mindy clamber into a police squad car and ask the Read More

The Law

Synopsis: This acclaimed muckraking drama by future Hollywood A-lister John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames) peels the lid off of the Los Angeles criminal justice system for a sobering glimpse of its many facets -- exploring every angle, from defense attorneys to solicitors to prosecutors. The Read More

The Execution of Private Slovik

Actors: Martin Sheen, Ned Beatty, Mariclare Costello, Gary Busey, Matt Clark

Synopsis: In 1945, private Eddie Slovik, a "born loser" who made no secret of his desire to escape the army in any way possible, became the first American to be executed for desertion since the Civil War. William Bradford Huie's chronicle of this unfortunate wartime episode, The Execution of Private Slovik Read More

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach

Synopsis: As much an eccentric character study as a road movie, Michael Cimino's directorial debut follows the adventures of a quartet of misfits in their life of crime. Retired thief Thunderbolt (Clint Eastwood) and sweet drifter Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges) meet cute when Thunderbolt jumps into Lightfoot's Read More

Hex

Actors: Mike Combs

Synopsis: In this bizarre biker movie, set in 1919, a wandering group of bikers encounter two weird sisters from Nebraska. The siblings are hereditary witches, taught by their father. One of them uses her powers to kill many of the gang members. She spares the one she is attracted to. He begins staying on Read More

Bloodsport

Actors: Ben Johnson, Gary Busey, Larry Hagman, Bill [William] Lucking, David F. Doyle

Synopsis: Bloodsport began life under the less alluring title Poetry in Motion. Gary Busey and Ben Johnson star as, respectively, a high-school football quarterback and his "winning is the only thing" father. The more his dad pushes him, the less Busey truly wants to be an athlete. The inter-family Read More

The Lolly Madonna War

Actors: Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Scott Wilson, Katherine Squire

Synopsis: Petty jealousies and misunderstandings between two rival families escalate into a tragic outburst of violence in this drama. Laban Feather (Rod Steiger) is the patriarch of a family of Tennessee moonshiners, brewing corn liquor with the help of his sons: Thrush (Scott Wilson), Zack (Jeff Bridges) Read More

The Last American Hero

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ned Beatty, Art Lund

Synopsis: Lamont Johnson's subtle direction graces this true-life success story about racecar driver Junior Jackson (Jeff Bridges), based on stock-car champion Junior Johnson. As a child in North Carolina, Jackson stays one step ahead of reform school until his father (Art Lund) is thrown in prison for Read More

Dirty Little Billy

Actors: Michael J. Pollard

Synopsis: Dirty Little Billy thankfully does not try to glorify its subject. Instead, Billy the Kid (Michael J. Pollard) is depicted as the homicidal mental defective that history has proven him to be. The film recounts Billy's formative years, exploding legends and myths all along the way. The Old West is Read More

Video Variations

Synopsis: This entertaining video mixes the Boston Symphony Orchestra with eight various artists. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Bonanza: The Hidden Enemy

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Mike Farrell, Melissa Murphy

Synopsis: Circuitously commenting upon the drug culture of the 1970s, this Bonanza episode probes the dangers of the onetime "wonder drug" morphine. Future MASH regular Mike Farrell is cast as Dr. Will Agar, who is revealed to be a morphine addict after he inadvertently causes the death of a young patient Read More

The Magnificent Seven Ride!

Actors: Stefanie Powers, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: This is the final sequel to The Magnificent Seven. In this chapter, the lead gunslinger has settled down with a new wife, and has become the marshal of a little town. His peaceful existence is disrupted when a psychotic outlaw rides in, robs the bank, wounds the marshal with his gun, and then Read More

Angels Hard As They Come

Actors: Dennis Art

Synopsis: Angels Hard as They Come is a melange of sex, violence, leather, and souped-up Harleys with a note of topicality added in by having some of the bikers dress and behave like hippies. One of the things distinguishing Angels Hard as They Come other pictures of its ilk is the fact that it was produced Read More