Jan RubesFilmography

The Republic of Love

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Emilia Fox, Edward Fox, Martha Henry, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: In Deepa Mehta's poignant and heartbreaking romance, Emilia Fox plays Fay, a generally content, thirtysomething Torontoite suffering in a relationship of quiet desperation with her boyfriend; Bruce Greenwood is Tom Avery, a loser in the ways of romance with three broken-hearted marriages behind Read More

Stargate SG-1: Crystal Skull

Synopsis: A crystal skull, an alien artifact found in a Mayan pyramid, comes into the possession of Jackson (Michael Shanks)--who promplty vanishes from sight. Apparently the only hope for bringing Jackson back rests in the hands of his grandfather Nick (Jan Rubes), who, having been shunned by the Read More

Believe

Synopsis: Two young friends find themselves immersed in a supernatural mystery after a notorious neighborhood ghost reveals itself to them. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Couples

Actors: Elizabeth Perkins, Martin Donovan, Sela Ward, Dana Delany, Al Waxman, Alfred Molina, Linda Hamilton, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: Two inspiring true tales comprise this feature. Both center on ordinary people who risked everything during WW II to save Jewish people from the Holocaust. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: Sarabande

Actors: Yo-Yo Ma, Lori Singer, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, George Sperdakos, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: Quirky Canadian director Atom Egoyan helmed this, the only fictional entry in a series of six films, titled "Yo-Yo Ma Inspired Bach." The story centers on the world-renowned cellist and is a free-form series of unrelated connections between people. As the story begins, Ma is flying to Toronto via Read More

ER: The Long Way Around

Synopsis: Still on suspension from the ER, Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) stops off at a local convenience store, and ends up smack dab in the middle of a robbery. Shots rings out, the store's owner and one of the robbers are wounded, and the incident turns into a dangerous hostage situation. Hoping to Read More

Flood: A River's Rampage

Actors: Richard Thomas, Kate Vernon, Nigel Bennett, Jan Rubes, Gabriel Hogan

Synopsis: Based on actual events from the early '90s and first aired on the Family Channel, this exciting drama centers on the attempts of one small town to keep the Mississippi river from destroying it. The leaders in this seemingly impossible quest are widower farmer Herb and the Army Corps of Engineers Read More

The Third Twin

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Jason Gedrick, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: In this two-part suspenser inspired by Ken Follett's bestselling novel, university pscyhobiologist Jenny Ferrami (Kelly McGillis), in the process of studying a possible link between genetics and criminal behavior, stumbles upon a secret cloning experiment conducted by a major company. Figuring Read More

Never Too Late

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Olympia Dukakis, Cloris Leachman, Jan Rubes, Jean LaPointe, Corey Haim

Synopsis: Residents in a retirement home band together to thwart the thievery of the home's crooked director. Woody, Joseph, Olive (Cloris Leachman) and Peter were a bridge foursome. The film opens at Peter's funeral where Joseph (Jan Rubes) is attempting to recruit Rose (Olympia Dukakis) to fill Peter's Read More

Roommates

Actors: Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney, Julianne Moore, Jan Rubes, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: In the film Happy New Year (1987), actor Peter Falk donned old-age makeup to play a senior citizen. Eight years later, he did it again, twice, in the TV movie remake of The Sunshine Boys (1995) and this film, a comedy-drama. Falk stars as Rocky Holzcek, a cantankerous 76-year-old Polish-American Read More

Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

Actors: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena, Susan Barnes

Synopsis: Glenn Close won the "Outstanding Lead Actress" Emmy for her performance in this made-for-television drama about the rights of homosexuals in the military. Close stars as Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, an Army medical officer with an eye on a promotion who is suddenly tossed into discharge Read More

D2: The Mighty Ducks

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kathryn Erbe, Michael Tucker, Jan Rubes, Carsten Norgaard

Synopsis: In this sequel to the kid-friendly sports comedy The Mighty Ducks, Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) takes one more shot at a career as a professional hockey player, but a severe knee injury sidelines him for good. However, his success coaching a rag-tag pee-wee hockey team in Minneapolis (as Read More

Boozecan

Actors: Leslie Hope, Justin Louis, Jan Rubes, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: Justin Louis, Eugene Lipinski and Andrew Miller star in this gritty thriller from Canada about the owner of an after-hours club who finds himself pursued by a obsessive undercover policeman. Also features Jan Rubes and Kenneth Welsh. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Mesmer

Actors: Alan Rickman, Amanda Ooms, Gillian Barge, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: This historical drama is based on the true story of controversial medical pioneer Franz Anton Mesmer. In 18th century Vienna, Mesmer (Alan Rickman) believes that many of the favored medical treatments of the day -- most notoriously the inducement of bleeding to remove harmful "humors" from the Read More

The Birds 2: Land's End

Actors: Brad Johnson, Chelsea Field, Tippi Hedren, Jan Rubes, James Naughton

Synopsis: Produced for cable TV, this feeble follow-up to the classic Hitchcock thriller transfers the avian carnage from Bodega Bay to the New England fishing town of Land's End, where a young couple and their two daughters are besieged by squadrons of malicious gulls and their assorted winged cousins. Read More

Coming of Age

Actors: Marion Gilsenan, Jan Rubes, Bernard Behrens

By Way of the Stars

Actors: Zachary Bennett, Gema Zamprogna, Christian Kohlund, Anja Kruse, Hannes Jaenicke

Synopsis: A 19th century Prussian boy still reeling from the untimely death of his mother finds his life thrown into chaos when his father is wrongfully imprisoned in a classical adventure tale written by Marlene Matthews and directed by Allan King. Lukas' (Zachary Bennett) mother has just died in Read More

On My Own

Actors: Judy Davis, Matthew Ferguson, David McIlwraith, Jan Rubes, Michele Melega

Synopsis: In this haunting and complex coming-of-age drama, a 15-year-old student at a boy's preparatory school grows up a little faster as he tries to deal with his own problems and those of his fragmented family. His parents are divorced and since the split, he has become estranged from his father. The Read More

Devlin

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable-TV crime drama, New York detective Devlin must prove that he is innocent of killing his brother-in-law, a mayoral candidate. It is not easy for the unhappily married, alcoholic gumshoe because he suspects that the man trying to frame him is his arch nemesis, his corrupt Read More

Deceived

Actors: Goldie Hawn, John Heard, Robin Bartlett, Ashley Peldon, Tom Irwin

Synopsis: Goldie Hawn delivers a surprisingly understated performance (allowing the audience to shift their laughter from the usually comic Hawn to the unbelievable storyline) in the unsuccessful thriller Deceived. Hawn plays Adrienne Saunders, a successful art restorer who is married to Jack (John Heard) Read More

Class Action

Actors: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels, Joanna Merlin, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: A pair of lawyers must balance their professional principles (such as they are) against family loyalties in this courtroom drama. Jedediah Ward (Gene Hackman) is a leftist lawyer who has based his career on helping people avoid being taken for a ride by the rich and powerful; he's pursued Read More

Courage Mountain

Actors: Juliette Caton, Jan Rubes, Charlie Sheen, Leslie Caron, Yorgo Voyagis

Synopsis: With a story that seeks to continue the famous tale of Heidi, Courage Mountain focuses on the teenager (Juliette Caton), forced to leave her grandfather (Jan Rubes) to attend an Italian boarding school on the eve of World War I. The German army appropriates the school, and Heidi is forced to Read More

The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick

Actors: Noam Zylberman, Fairuza Balk, Saul Rubinek, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: Young Noam Zylberman, a well-known Canadian child actor (and cartoon voiceover veteran), stars in The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick. Growing up in a Jewish household during the 1960s, Zylberman would like to escape the confines of tradition and chart his own course. He finally gets the Read More

Descending Angel

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, this suspenseful thriller centers on a private investigation launched by a Romanian-American woman's fiancé after he begins suspecting that her father is a Nazi-war criminal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Divided Loyalties

Synopsis: The course of the American Revolution was changed dramatically when the Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant, decided to side with the British rather than the Americans during the American Revolution. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Experts

Actors: John Travolta, Arye Gross, Kelly Preston, Deborah Foreman, James Keach, Charles Martin Smith

Synopsis: SCTV alumnus Dave Thomas manned the megaphone for the direct-to-video Experts. John Travolta was between career highs when he agreed to appear in this anachronistic cold-war comedy. Travolta and Arye Gross play Travis and Wendell, a couple of vagabonds hired by Soviet spy Cameron Smith (Charles Martin Smith Read More

Cold Front

Actors: Martin Sheen, Michael Ontkean, Kim Coates, Beverly D'Angelo, Yvan Ponton

Synopsis: Due South it's not, but there are some nice touches in this thriller about an American drug enforcement agent on exchange assignment in Vancouver. The RCMP, the CIA and the KGB are all in pursuit of a deranged free-lance hit man who kills randomly-selected women in addition to his political Read More

Blind Fear

Actors: Shelley Hack, Kim Coates, Heidi von Palleske

Synopsis: This Canadian suspense film is basically a remake of Wait Until Dark, with Shelley Hack starring as a blind switchboard-operator at an isolated resort lodge in Maine. A trio of desperate criminals arrive, and the predictable stalking and mayhem ensues. Kim Coates, Geza Kovacs, and Jan Rubes can't Read More

The Kiss

Actors: Nicholas Kilbertus, Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk, Priscilla Mouzakiotis

Synopsis: The Kiss, an erotic horror film dealing with ancient curses and the occult, is the story of a teenage girl whose world is destroyed by the arrival of her mysterious aunt and the death of her mother. Amy (Meredith Salenger) leads a normal, suburban existence until the mysterious death of her mother Read More

Palais Royale

Actors: Kim Cattrall, Matt Craven, Kim Coates, Dean Stockwell, Brian George

Synopsis: Gerald (Matt Craven) is a country boy who takes a job in Toronto as a bookkeeper for an advertising agency. He hopes to someday launch his own successful ad campaigns and daydreams about the beautiful model on the billboard outside his office window. Gerald meets the model Odessa (Kim Catrall) and Read More

Blood Relations

Actors: Jan Rubes, Lydie Denier, Kevin Hicks, Lynne Adams, Sam Malkin

Synopsis: Dr. Wells (Jan Rubes) is joined by his fiancee three years after the death of his wife in a scheme to murder an old man for his inheritance money. She soon changes her mind when she discovers that brain transplants take place in the basement laboratory in the family mansion. None of the characters Read More

Two Men

Synopsis: In this drama, a well-respected Toronto businessman finds himself victimized by a vengeful Hungarian immigrant who believes that the entrepreneur killed his family at Auschwitz. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Something About Love

Actors: Stefan Wodoslawsky, Jan Rubes, Jennifer Dale, Diana Reis, Ron James

Synopsis: Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the local mortician who suffers from Alzheimer's Read More

Dead of Winter

Actors: Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes, William Russ, Mark Malone

Synopsis: Despite its relative failure at the box office, this is a worthwhile thriller from the director of Bonnie and Clyde. Mary Steenburgen stars as an actress, Katie McGovern, lured to the upstate New York cabin of crazy Dr. Joseph Lewis (Jan Rubes), a diabolical crippled shrink playing a blackmail Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Crossings'

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Lee Horsley, Christopher Plummer, Jane Seymour, Garrick Dowhen

Synopsis: A six-hour adaptation of Danielle Steel's best-selling novel, the ABC miniseries Crossings began on board a transatlantic ocean liner in 1938. In the course of a truly eventful sea voyage, a torrid romance developed between powerful American steel magnate Nick Burnham (Lee Horsley) and Liane Read More

The Marriage Bed

Actors: Linda Griffiths, Layne Coleman, R.H. Thomson

Synopsis: Marriage Bed began life as a Canadian made-for-TV movie. Described as "a comedy/drama about the perils of marriage", the film stars Linda Griffiths as a young bride. Griffiths' hubby Layne Coleman picks the worst possible time to walk out: the night before Christmas. R. H. Thompson costars in this Read More

Witness

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: In Peter Weir's thriller Witness, Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy, witnesses a murder in the restroom of a Philadelphia bus station. Harrison Ford stars as John Book, the police detective investigating the murder. When Book discovers that the crime was part of a conspiracy involving several Read More

One Magic Christmas

Actors: Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton, Arthur Hill, Elisabeth Harnois

Synopsis: The "magic" in One Magic Christmas is often (and surprisingly) of the "black" variety. Like Jimmy Stewart before her, worn-out wife and mother Mary Steenburgen wishes that she'd never been born. And like Stewart, Steenburgen is visited by a guardian angel, in this case the western-garbed Harry Dean Stanton Read More

Murder: By Reason of Insanity

Actors: Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Murder: By Reason of Insanity was inspired by a disastrous series of events occurring in New York State in 1979. Candice Bergen portrays a Polish immigrant housewife whose husband Jurgen Prochnow has subjected her to years of physical abuse. At first, she tells herself that he is acting out of Read More

Utilities

Actors: Robert Hays, Brooke Adams, John Marley, James Blendick, Ben Gordon

Synopsis: In this weakly limned comedy, romance, and social drama, Bob Hunt (Robert Hays) is a dedicated social worker out to save an elderly woman from having her heat shut off in the dead of winter. But his noble intentions are thwarted by Marion Edwards (Brooke Adams) a plainclothes policewoman, a Read More

The Amateur

Actors: John Savage, Christopher Plummer, Marthe Keller, Arthur Hill, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: CIA computer technician John Savage seeks revenge for the terrorist killing of his girlfriend. Threatening to make public his insider's information, Savage forces his reluctant bosses to train him in the art of assassination. He then heads into enemy territory (at least, it was enemy territory Read More

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid

Actors: Richard Harris, Jeanne Moreau, George Peppard, Jennifer Dale

Synopsis: Sexual obsession provides the basis of this taut thriller, an adaptation of a Romain Gary novel. The story centers upon a prominent financier who must fight to save his crumbling business empire and his rapidly fading manhood. The obsession begins when the impotent magnate begins dreaming that a Read More

Charlie Grant's War

Synopsis: This WW II drama tells the true tale of a Canadian diamond broker who attempts to save Austrian Jews from Nazi brutality and persecution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mr. Patman

Actors: James Coburn, Kate Nelligan, Fionnula Flanagan, Les Carlson, Candy Kane

Synopsis: Mr. Patman is well liked and has charm to spare. He works as an orderly in a mental hospital and does a good job except that he is beginning to believe that he is being shadowed by the irate husband of his landlady. When not bunking with her, Mr. Patman attempts to launch an affair with a Read More

Lions for Breakfast

Synopsis: Lions for Breakfast is a "four waller" designed for the G-rated family trade. This somewhat overlong outdoor adventure concerns the exploits of two young brothers and their dog. An elderly drifter joins the three principals in their trek through the wilderness. Dan Forbes, Jim Henshaw, Dan Forbes, Sue Petrie Read More

The New Avengers: Complex

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Cec Linder, Harvey Atkin

Synopsis: The first of four New Avengers episodes filmed in Canada finds our dauntless trio of dogooders in Toronto, on the trail of an elusive Russian agent known as Scapina. Getting separated from her colleagues, Purdey (Joanna Lumley) finds herself trapped in a computerized building. Even worse: The Read More

The Incredible Journey

Actors: Emile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed, Sandra Scott, Syme Jago

Synopsis: Filmed in Canada as a joint project involving Walt Disney studios and Calgary Ltd., The Incredible Journey stars a cat named Tao and two dogs named Bodger and Luath. When their family goes on vacation, the animals are left in charge of family friend Emile Genest. Genest goes off to hunt for a Read More

Forbidden Journey

Synopsis: This Canadian espionager stars Jan Rubes as a communist spy. Rubes heads to Montreal, hoping to pass on government secrets to his cohorts. The restful background scenery is not altogether conducive to nail-biting tension, but the excitement level picks up towards the climax. Keep an eye out for Read More