Jason Miller Filmography

Paradox Lake

Actors: Matt Wolf, Jessica Fuchs, Phe Caplan, Jason Miller, Ernie Jurez

Synopsis: A man is drawn into the mysterious world of autistic children in this drama. Matt (Matt Wolf) is a man in his mid-twenties from New York City who is looking to sort out his life after an illness. Matt takes a volunteer position at a summer camp for autistic children, and is assigned to look after Read More

Mommy

Actors: Patty McCormack, Rachel Lemieux, Jason Miller, Brinke Stevens, Michael Cornelison

Synopsis: Patty McCormack, so memorable as the evil, murderous little Rhoda Penmark in 1956's The Bad Seed, is outstanding in this unofficial "sequel" to that film. McCormack's "Mommy" is psychotically obsessed with her 12-year-old daughter Jessica Ann -- so much so that when she finds out Jessica didn't Read More

Rudy

Actors: Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton, Lili Taylor, Jason Miller, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: A young man learns to let nothing stop him from realizing his ambitions in this drama, based on a true story. Ever since he was a little boy, Rudy Ruettiger (Sean Astin) has dreamed of attending Notre Dame University, and playing on the Fighting Irish football team. However, Rudy's dream doesn't Read More

Small Kill

Actors: Gary Burghoff, Jason Miller, Fred Carpenter, Donnie Kehr, Rebecca Ferratti

Synopsis: Rob Fresco directed this astoundingly bizarre thriller featuring one of the more unusual psycho killers of recent years, Gary Burghoff, best known as Radar O'Reilly from the film and TV series M*A*S*H. As the demented Fleck, Burghoff gets to kidnap children from shopping malls and resell them to Read More

The Exorcist III

Actors: George C. Scott, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif, Nicol Williamson

Synopsis: William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, directed this intriguing, deliberately-paced thriller based on his novel Legion. Ignoring the events of John Boorman's disappointing Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), the film moves ahead 15 years from the end of the original, when Georgetown is being Read More

Light of Day

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands, Joan Jett, Michael McKean, Thomas G. Waites

Synopsis: A brother and sister grapple with family and lifestyle issues in this rock-n-roll drama. Real-life rocker Joan Jett stars as Patti Resnick, an unwed mother who sings and plays guitar in a Cleveland bar band with her brother Joe (Michael J. Fox). Estranged from her parents and struggling to make Read More

Deadly Care

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Deadly Care stars Cheryl Ladd as an intensive-care nurse. The pressures of her job, coupled with problems at home, lead Cheryl to resort to desperate "coping" measures. She develops an addiction to drugs and liquor, a deadly combination for anyone in the medical profession. Only Read More

Vengeance

Synopsis: When a group of Latin American prisoners attempt a daring escape, they must struggle to survive and avoid capture. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Toy Soldiers

Actors: Jason Miller, Cleavon Little, Terri Garber, Rodolfo De Anda, Douglas Warhit

Synopsis: Seven wealthy college students are cruising off the coast of a nameless country in Central America that is going though a time of war and political upheaval. The kids have come to find adventure and to take a much- needed break from school when suddenly they are captured by soldiers and held for Read More

A Touch of Scandal

Synopsis: In this drama, a lady lawyer's campaign to become state attorney general is jeopardized by a scandal involving a gigolo, extortion and even murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Monsignor

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller, Joe Cortese

Synopsis: An ambitious priest discovers that honoring the Ten Commandments isn't as easy as he imagined in this drama. Father John Flaherty (Christopher Reeve) is a Catholic priest who was ordained during World War II, and soon found himself forced to fight enemy forces while serving as a chaplain in the Read More

That Championship Season

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Adapted from Jason Miller's play which won the Pulitzer Prize, That Championship Season is about a group of men who, after 25 years, get together again for a high-school basketball team reunion. After drinking and chumming, the circle of friends soon find long-hidden anger and resentment Read More

The Best Little Girl in the World

Actors: Charles Durning, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eva Marie Saint, Melanie Mayron, Jason Miller

Synopsis: A young girl's dangerous dance with dieting leads to near disaster in this exceptional made-for-television drama. In one of the earliest treatments of the subject, Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as Casey Powell, the quiet daughter of an overbearing mother and milquetoast father. Feeling pressure to be Read More

Marilyn: The Untold Story

Actors: Richard Basehart, Catherine Hicks

Synopsis: The title of this made-for-TV biopic is faintly risible: is there anything about Marilyn Monroe that we don't know by now? Pleasingly enough, the story is told in a straightforward, nonexploitive manner (the affair with JFK warrants no more than a throwaway line). Emmy-nominated Catherine Hicks Read More

Devil's Advocate

Synopsis: Though boasting a British star and director, The Devil's Advocate was essentially a West German production; it was released in Germany in 1977, three years before its bow in English-speaking theatres. John Mills tops the cast as a dying priest who has been summoned to Rome for one last assignment. Read More

The Henderson Monster

Synopsis: The made-for-television movie The Henderson Monster is about a genetic scientist who experiments with the creation of new life in a small university town. After he is discovered by the community, the town is gripped by an ethical debate. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Reward

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this mystery, a policeman quits the force to investigate the death of his partner independently. He is assisted by a pretty young woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Ninth Configuration

Actors: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand, Moses Gunn

Synopsis: William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, proved a workmanlike producer/director for 1979's The Ninth Configuration. Army psychiatrist Col. Kane (Stacy Keach) (teetering on the sanity brink himself) tries to minister to the patients in a military mental hospital. The fact that the hospital is Read More

Vampire

Actors: Jason Miller, Richard Lynch, E.G. Marshall, Kathryn Harrold, Michael Tucker

Synopsis: This remarkably chilling made-for-TV horror film plays as equal parts old-fashioned supernatural tale and 1970s-style detective thriller. After the groundbreaking of a San Francisco cathedral disturbs the resting place of an ancient European bloodsucker (professional creeper Richard Lynch), an Read More

The Dain Curse

Synopsis: Dashiell Hammett's money-grubbing detective Hamilton Nash is on the case in this mystery set in 1928. This time he is looking into the suspicious suicide of a prominent millionaire and trying to recover purloined diamonds that are reportedly cursed. This version of the tale was released as Read More

El Perro

Actors: Rafael Albaicin, Juan Antonio Bardem, Eduardo Calvo

Synopsis: Aristides Ungria (Jason Miller) was a political prisoner being held by a Latin American dictatorship, but he has escaped. A trained dog has been sent to hunt and kill him. While he is trudging through the jungles, he is at a relative disadvantage to the dog. Later, the dog suffers a disadvantage Read More

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

Synopsis: This TV movie delves into the unhappy later years of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (here played by Jason Miller). Broke and virtually written-out by the late 1930s, Fitzgerald is compelled to accept screenwriting work in Tinseltown where he is frustrated that his work is extensively rewritten and Read More

A Home of Our Own

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Home of Our Own is about a Roman Catholic priest in Mexico who builds an orphanage for abandoned boys ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Nickel Ride

Actors: Jason Miller, Linda Haynes, John Hillerman, Bo Hopkins, Victor French

Synopsis: The events leading up to the death of a small-time Los Angeles hood provides the basis of this gripping crime drama. The doomed gangster is known as the "key man" because he manages several warehouses containing oodles of pilfered loot. They mobsters have stolen so much that they are running out Read More

The Exorcist

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Kitty Winn

Synopsis: Novelist William Peter Blatty based his best-seller on the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the United States. Blatty transformed the little boy in the 1949 incident into a little girl named Regan, played by 14-year-old Linda Blair. Suddenly prone to fits and bizarre behavior, Regan Read More

Gurrilla Salvaje

Actors: Rodolfo De Anda, Tim Robbins, Jason Miller, Angélica Aragón

Synopsis: Academy award-winner Tim Robbins makes his feature film debut in this 1984 thriller concerning a group of seven American college students held ransom by a rogue band of Central America guerillas. Ignoring the advice of their captain while taking a cruise around Central America, Beverly Hills rich Read More