Joe Viterelli Filmography

Serving Sara

Actors: Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Bruce Campbell, Amy Adams, Vincent Pastore

Synopsis: A process server makes an unusual alliance with a beautiful but devious woman in this comedy. Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) is a former attorney whose career went bust when he picked up some clients who turned out to be associated with the Mafia. These days, Joe makes his living as a process server Read More

Shallow Hal

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black, Jason Alexander, Joe Viterelli, Rene Kirby

Synopsis: Jack Black continues his march to stardom with this typical Farrelly brothers blend of broad comedy and a heartfelt message. Black is Hal Larsen, a shallow man rapidly approaching middle age whose superficiality can be attributed to his father's deathbed admonition to only date young, beautiful Read More

See Spot Run

Actors: David Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb, Joe Viterelli

Synopsis: A police dog finds himself pitted in a battle of wits against an accident-prone mailman and a gang of crooks (and it looks like the dog has the edge in the brains department) in this broad comedy. Agent 11 (Bob) is a bulldog trained by the FBI agent Murdoch (Michael Clarke Duncan) to sniff out Read More

Face To Face

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Alex Rocco, Joe Viterelli, Thomas Calabro, Scott Baio

Synopsis: Three guys from New Jersey decide they need some male bonding with their fathers -- whether their fathers like it or not -- in this independent comedy. When his grandfather dies, Richie Gallo (Scott Baio) finds himself thinking about his relationship with his family, and realizes that he barely Read More

Wannabes

Actors: William DeMeo, Conor Dubin, Daniel Margotta, John Palumbo, Joe Viterelli, Joseph D'Onofrio

Synopsis: William DeMeo is scriptwriter, star, and co-director for the crime drama Wannabes. Hotheated older brother Angelo (DeMeo) and more-thoughtful younger brother Paulie (Conor Dubin) are both fired from their jobs as waiters at an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn. They join up with two of their Read More

Sex and Bullets

Synopsis: Sex and Bullets stars Judd Nelson and Seymour Cassel as a pair of hitmen who are on the run from a powerful mobster after they whack one of the mobster's sons. The two go their separate ways in order to hide more effectively, but each ends up being involved in a bizarre adventure. Max (Nelson) Read More

Mickey Blue Eyes

Actors: Hugh Grant, James Caan, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Burt Young, James Fox

Synopsis: Would you believe Hugh Grant as a violent Mafioso from Kansas City? Don't worry if you can't: that's part of the joke in this romantic comedy. Michael Felgate (Hugh Grant) is a British expatriate living in Manhattan who runs a successful auction house dealing in rare and valuable art. When Read More

Analyze This

Actors: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Chazz Palminteri

Synopsis: In the same year that a hit cable television series, The Sopranos, successfully mined the same premise, this comedy about a mobster seeking advice from a psychiatrist was a box office winner for director Harold Ramis. Billy Crystal stars as Dr. Ben Sobel, a New York shrink who's becoming a little Read More

A Walk in the Park

Actors: Alan Berger, Ericka Klein, Megan Cavanagh

Synopsis: A man thinks he may have found the woman of his dreams thanks to his new job, though neither of them have an easy time believing it in this offbeat romantic comedy. After Mickey Schwinn (Alan Berger) manages to put a stake through the heart of each of his two careers (he was a commodities broker Read More

Facade

Actors: Damian Chapa, Patricia Velasquez, Camilla Overbye Roos, Jeannie Millar, Roger Guenveur Smith, Joe Viterelli, Daniela Elle, Brad Garrett, Angus MacFadyen, Dawn Radenbaugh, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: A real estate developer (Eric Roberts) sells out his partner/buddy in order to clear the path for the construction of a major hotel. The wife of his buddy, who was a former lover of his, discovers the body of her husband (with the body of a woman he was having an affair with) and becomes aware his Read More

The Strip

Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Guy Torry, Joe Viterelli, Stacey Dash, Tippi Hedren

Mafia!

Actors: Jay Mohr, Billy Burke, Christina Applegate, Pam Gidley, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: Satirist Jim Arahams returned with this comedy spoofing the Godfather trilogy, and other films and TV, including Jurassic Park, Lord of the Dance, and Barney. The opening emulates a Saul Bass sequence with Anthony Cortino (Jay Mohr) in a flight amid flames much like Robert De Niro in the Casino Read More

American Strays

Actors: Luke Perry, Jennifer Tilly, Eric Roberts, John Savage, Carol Kane

Synopsis: A collection of losers, misfits, and outcasts find their lives unexpectedly converging at a diner along a desert highway in this violent and offbeat comedy drama. Dwayne (John Savage) is a strait-laced-looking vacuum cleaner salesman with a bad habit of murdering prospective customers, while Patty Read More

Eraser

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa Williams, James Coburn, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: Top-notch action sequences and exciting stunt work highlight this fast-moving thriller. John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a top agent in the U.S. Marshalls' Witness Protection Program; it's his job to "erase" the pasts of Federal witnesses under his watch and deal with anyone who tries to Read More

Heaven's Prisoners

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Mary Stuart Masterson, Eric Roberts, Teri Hatcher

Synopsis: An ex-cop trying to stay away from trouble finds it literally crashing into his backyard in this crime thriller. Dave Robicheaux (Alec Baldwin) is a former New Orleans police detective who, after kicking an addiction to alcohol and confronting some serious problems with his partners, has left law Read More

The Crossing Guard

Actors: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Anjelica Huston, Robin Wright Penn, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: Sean Penn wrote and directed this tale of loss, guilt, and revenge. The daughter of Freddy and Mary Gale (Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston) was killed by a drunk driver, John Booth (David Morse). The death of their child took a heavy toll on the Gales; their marriage broke up, and, while Mary Read More

Black Rose of Harlem

Synopsis: Set in the roaring '20s amidst the chaotic jazz clubs of Chicago, gangster Johnny Varona embarks upon a forbidden love affair with Georgia, a beautiful black chanteuse. While racism plays a part in dooming the relationship, the most damning factor is Constanza, Johnny's bloodthirsty boss and Read More

Bullets Over Broadway

Actors: John Cusack, Jack Warden, Chazz Palminteri, Joe Viterelli, Jennifer Tilly, Dianne Wiest

Synopsis: Bullets Over Broadway is a Woody Allen romp that, as the title suggests, combines gangsters with show business at the height of the Roaring Twenties. David Shayne (John Cusack) is a straight-arrow playwright who plans to stand firm against compromising his work, but quickly abandons that stance Read More

Ruby

Actors: Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn, Arliss Howard, Tobin Bell, David Duchovny

Synopsis: Here's a fictionalized account of Jack Ruby's perspective of the events leading up to his assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald. Danny Aiello appears convincingly as the nightclub-owner Ruby who (according to this telling) points the finger at an FBI conspiracy as the force behind the Kennedy Read More

In the Shadow of a Killer

Synopsis: When a decorated New York City policeman voiced his opposition to an accused cop killer's death sentence, his co-workers ostracized him in this true story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

What She Doesn't Know

Actors: Valerie Bertinelli, George Dzundza, Peter Dobson, David Marshall Grant, Randle Mell

Synopsis: When a district attorney starts an investigation into corruption that leads her back to her own family--rife with police officers--she finds some decisions hard to make. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Mobsters

Actors: Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Grieco, Costas Mandylor, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: In this fictionalized account based on true figures, a foursome of young thugs decides to team up and take control of New York's east side from the aging bosses who control it. Bugsy Siegel (Richard Grieco) and Frank Costello (Costas Mandylor) control the physical elements of the operation, while Read More

State of Grace

Actors: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, John Turturro

Synopsis: This directorial effort from Phil Joanou stars Sean Penn as an Irish-American undercover cop working the Hell's Kitchen beat. Penn is ostensibly on a sentimental journey to his old neighborhood. Actually he's been assigned to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Ed Harris, the brother of Sean's best Read More