John Sacret YoungFilmography

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Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Teleplay By, Screenwriter
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  • Deceit

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The life of wealthy Ellen McCarthy (Marlo Thomas) is thrown into disarray when her husband Grove (William Devane) disappears at sea during a voyage on the family yacht. Evidence indicates that Grove has drowned, and the police have reason to suspect that Ellen was responsible. As the investigation Read More

    2004

  • Level 9 [TV Series]

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Fab Filippo, Kate Hodge, Max Martini

    Synopsis: One of two sci-fi/fantasy series that premiered October 27, 2000, on UPN (see separate entry for Freedom), Level 9 was co-created by executive producer John Sacret Young and mystery novelist Michael Connelly. The series is based on the not-entirely-incredible premise that the next generation's Read More

    2000

  • Muhammad Ali: King of the World

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Teleplay By

    Actors: Terrence Howard, Gary Dourdan, Steve Harris, John Ventimiglia, Chi McBride

    Synopsis: It is just possible that the made-for-TV biopic Muhammad Ali: King of the World was hastily pieced together to capitalize on the popular theatrical documentary When We Were Kings and the publicity attending the upcoming Will Smith movie vehicle Ali. Actually, the title of the TV film was something Read More

    2000

  • Sirens

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Dana Delany, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Brian Dennehy

    Synopsis: In this racially charged drama, Sally (Dana Delaney) is a white woman who is making out with Edward (Vondie Curtis-Hall), her black husband in a parked car when a group of policemen surround the car and murder Edward. The officers then plant phony evidence at the scene of the crime that would Read More

    1999

  • Thanks of a Grateful Nation

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Ted Danson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Dennehy, Marg Helgenberger, Steven Weber, Matt Keeslar

    Synopsis: Reuniting several China Beach talents, this three-hour, fact-based TV miniseries dramatizes the apparent government cover-up of the after-effects of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Exposure to toxic agents by some 100,000 men and women led to skin rashes, respiratory infections, and cancer, but the Read More

    1998

  • Romero

    Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, Ana Alicia, Tony Plana, Harold Gould

    Synopsis: In El Salvador in the late '70s, the wealthy few rule the impoverished many. To maintain the status quo against peasant insurgents and labor organizations, the military regime brutalizes the populace, in particular, rebels who espouse Marxism. Assassinations, executions, and disappearances become Read More

    8/25/89

  • Testament

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal, Lukas Haas

    Synopsis: Director Lynne Littman has created an effective, understated portrayal of the cost of a nuclear war in human terms, in a film as far removed from the fake hyperbole of action and disaster movies as the natural world is from cartoons. Set in the small California town of Hamlin, the Wetherly family Read More

    1983

  • Fire on the Mountain

    Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Michael Conrad, Ron Howard, Buddy Ebsen, Julie Carmen

    Synopsis: A 1962 novel by Edward Abbey was the source for this 1981 TV movie. Buddy Ebsen plays a stubborn oldster who refuses to leave his mountain property when it is targeted for a government missile base. Not even a promised $100,000 compensation will induce Ebsen to leave. Young land developer Ron Howard Read More

    1981

  • A Rumor of War

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Brad Davis, Brian Dennehy

    Synopsis: The 2-part TV movie Rumor of War was based on the 1977 memoirs of Vietnam veteran Philip Caputo. Brad Davis stars as Caputo, who during the mid-1960s was a Marine lieutenant. In battle after battle, Caputo performs his duties admirably, even when questioning the wisdom of America's Vietnam Read More

    1980

  • Special Olympics - A Special Kind of Love

    Crew: Teleplay By

    Synopsis: This heart-warming made-for-television drama chronicles a widowed father's struggle to keep his family intact. He has three sons, and one of them is mentally retarded. The boy has a gift for sports and his father enrolls him in the Special Olympics. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1978

  • The Possessed

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: An ex-priest helps exorcise the demons that have taken over the residents of an exclusive girls' school in this made-for-TV supernatural thriller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1977

  • Chandler

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In this murder mystery, a private investigator falls for the former mistress of a racketeer who is slated to be a witness for the state. He is supposed to be quietly guarding her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1971

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