John SavageFilmography

The Golden Boys

Actors: David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, Mariel Hemingway, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Adapted from Joseph C. Lincoln's best-selling novel Can'n Eri, this gentle tale of three retired sea captains living together and looking to get their house in order features an all-star cast including David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, and Mariel Hemingway. The story begins in turn of the Read More

The Red Canvas

Synopsis: Ernie Reyes Jr. stars in this dramatic foray into the bloody world of mixed martial arts fighting. Real-life fighter Reyes (son of legendary martial artist Ernie Reyes Sr.) portrays convict Johnny Sanchez, who battles in prison tournaments run by his corrupt warden, Harbin Rask (John Savage). Read More

The Thacker Case

The Violent Kind

Actors: Kirk Harris, John Savage, Irina Björklund

Synopsis: In the tradition of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch comes The Violent Kind, a chilling psychological thriller tracing the mental descent of an Iraq War veteran whose desperate attempt to reunite with his young wife and veteran father yields horrifying consequences. Terry Malloy (Kirk Harris) is a Read More

From a Place of Darkness

Actors: John Savage, Bronson Pinchot, Travis Schuldt, Natalie Zea, Conor Duffy

The Grift

Actors: John Savage, Sara Downing, Jeremy London, Max Kasch, Clare Kramer

Synopsis: A family of rural grifters employs lies and manipulation to ensnare unwitting victims in their diabolical web of greed in director Ralph E. Portillo's dark period thriller. The year is 1948. World War II has ended, and Caney Fork is your typical American small town. Like most other bedroom Read More

Downtown: A Street Tale

Actors: Joey Dedio, Geneviève Bujold

Synopsis: Life on the streets is never easy, and when a disparate group of homeless teens attempt to mold a hopeful future from nothing more than cardboard and food dredged out of the local dumpster a street-smart counselor does her best to ensure that their efforts aren't made in vain. Genevieve Bujold Read More

The Attic

Actors: Jason Lewis, John Savage, Catherine Stewart, Thomas Jay Ryan, Elisabeth Moss, Tom Malloy

Synopsis: John Savage and Mary Catherine Stewart star in Pet Sematary director Mary Lambert's foreboding tale of a mysterious Victorian home, and one particularly vengeful doppelganger. Shortly after moving into a sprawling Victorian home with her controlling father (Savage) and former beauty-queen mother Read More

Iowa

Actors: Matt Farnsworth, Diane Foster, Michael T. Weiss, Rosanna Arquette, John Savage, Muse Watson, David Backus, Amanda Tepe

Synopsis: Matt Farnsworth wrote and stars in the independent drama Iowa, which also marks his feature directorial debut. Farnsworth and associate producer/co-star Diane Foster had previously worked on Poor Man's Dope, a documentary about tweaked-out Midwestern methamphetamine addicts and dealers, and that Read More

Kill Your Darlings

Actors: Lolita Davidovich, Andreas Wilson, Alexander Skarsgård, Julie Benz, Fares Fares

Synopsis: A man fascinated with the process of ending one's own life meets some rather disturbing kindred spirits in this dark comedy. Erik (Andreas Wilson) is a commercial photographer and would-be screenwriter who has left his native Sweden to come to Hollywood in hopes of selling his latest script. Erik Read More

The New World

Actors: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Terrence Malick, the universally acclaimed American filmmaker responsible for the key 1970s features Badlands and Days of Heaven, returns for a rare directorial outing with the sweeping period piece The New World -- an epic dramatization of Pocahontas' relationships with John Smith and John Rolfe. Malick Read More

Carnivàle: Season 02

Actors: Nick Stahl, Clancy Brown

Love's Long Journey

Actors: Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew

Synopsis: The third chapter from popular novelist Janette Oke's Love Comes Softly series of books arrives on the screen in a wondrous tale of new frontiers starring Erin Cottrell and Logan Bartholomew. Missie (Cottrell) is pregnant, and it's time that her and husband Willie (Bartholomew) strike out on their Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Quarry

Synopsis: Following up an anonymous tip, Detective Benson (Mariska Hargitay) finds the remains of Jeffrey Ronson, a seven-year-old who vanished in 1980. Subsequent clues suggest that Jeffrey was raped and murdered by Lucas Biggs (John Savage), an ex-ballplayer currently awaiting execution for a string of Read More

Intoxicating

Actors: Kirk Harris, Eric Roberts, John Savage, Camilla Overbye Roos

Synopsis: A man is forced to examine his headlong dive into chemically induced oblivion when he starts dragging someone else along with him in this independent drama. Dorian (Kirk Harris) is a gifted surgeon who has a severe problem outside the operating room -- he is an alcoholic and cocaine abuser who is Read More

Admissions

Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Amy Madigan, John Savage, Fran Kranz, Taylor Roberts, Lauren Ambrose

Synopsis: A gifted high-school student flubs her college admissions interviews for the most unexpected reasons in this independent coming-of-age drama. Cynical, world-weary Evie (Lauren Ambrose) is more interested in taking care of her family than getting into the Ivy League institutions for which she seems Read More

Sucker Free City

Actors: Ben Crowley, Ken Leung, Anthony Mackie, Darris Love, Laura Allen, Malieek Straughter, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee makes the leap from the big screen to the small screen for this Showtime drama concerning the battle waged between black, white, an Asian gangs for control of the San Francisco streets. A modern-day melting pot that has become home to some of the vicious street-gangs Read More

Alien Lockdown

Actors: Martin Kove, James Marshall, John Savage, Michelle Goh

Synopsis: When an ancient alien life force that has lain dormant for centuries awakens with a hunger for human life, it's up to an elite SWAT team lead by a fierce but beautiful assassin to save humankind from a fate beyond pain and death. For centuries, the extraterrestrial menace has waited for the moment Read More

The Anarchist Cookbook

Actors: John Savage, Gina Philips, Sabine Singh, Devon Gummersall, Dylan Bruno

Synopsis: A so-called anarchist gets an unexpected crash-course in living on the edge in this independent comedy drama. Puck (Devon Gummersall) is a college dropout and self-styled political radical who lives with a handful of friends in an anarchist commune near Plano, TX. Puck's roommates and fellow Read More

Easy Six

Actors: Julian Sands, Katharine Towne, John Savage

Synopsis: A burnt out college professor finds his quest for vitality leading him into the arms of disaster in this seriocomic tale of love and desperation starring Julian Sands, John Savage, Katherine Towne, and Jim Belushi. Packard Schmidt (Sands) is having a mid-life crisis. Unfulfilled by his job as an Read More

The Drop

Actors: John Savage, Sean Young, Michael Bondies, Kat Ogden

Synopsis: A lowly courier finds himself caught in an interstellar struggle between the forces of light and the powers of darkness in an otherworldly thriller starring Sean Young, John Savage, and Michael Bondies. Carter was a mere college student when he accepted a large amount of cash to simply drive a Read More

Redemption of the Ghost

Actors: Diane Ladd, John Savage, Alexandra Paul, Rachel Hunter

Synopsis: When an escaped convict is discovered hiding in a barn by two young children, he convinces the kids that he is a ghost while learning an important lesson in paying penance for his crimes. Witt Hampton was a convicted embezzler sentenced to year behind bars for his greedy transgressions. Read More

Dark Angel: Season 02

Actors: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, Jensen Ackles, Martin Cummins, Kevin Durand

Burning Down the House

Actors: Joanne Baron, John Savage, James Wilder, David Keith

Synopsis: A would-be movie mogul has to decide just how low he's willing to sink to get his next picture made in this black comedy about life in Hollywood. Jake Seiling (John Savage) is a filmmaker who wants to adapt a recent novel by author Arthur Kranson (William Atherton) for the screen, convinced it has Read More

Touched by an Angel: When Sunny Gets Blue

Synopsis: Young Mike (Zachary Quinto) has never been able to pry the truth from his mother Allison (Annie Corley) about his long-missing father. Allison insists that Mike's dad had been a lawyer named Simon K. Miller, but this information would seem to be misleading when Monica (Roma Downey) and the angels Read More

Dark Angel: Season 01

Actors: Jessica Alba, Michael Weatherly, Alimi Ballard, Jennifer Blanc, Richard Gunn

Creepy Crawlers

Actors: Thomas Calabro, Dean Stockwell, John Savage

Synopsis: A mutant African cockroach infests a remote Maine island just as young Dr. Ben Cahill (Thomas Calabro) goes there to shake off the effects of his heavy drinking. His first encounter is with Jack Wolk (John Savage), a local who resents Cahill buying his family's dilapidated house. The resentment Read More

The Virginian

Actors: Bill Pullman, Diane Lane, John Savage, Harris Yulin, Colm Feore

Synopsis: Actor Bill Pullman made his directorial debut with this third screen adaptation of the classic Western novel by Owen Wister. The Virginian (Pullman) leaves the state of his birth to make a new life for himself on the frontier of the American West. He falls in love with Molly Stark (Diane Lane), a Read More

Message in a Bottle

Actors: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, John Savage, Illeana Douglas

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, Message In A Bottle stars Robin Wright Penn as Theresa Osborne, a writer for the Chicago Tribune. While her son visits her cheating ex-husband, Theresa goes on a vacation by herself. One day, while running on the beach, she finds a bottle washed up on the Read More

The Jack Bull

Actors: John Cusack, John Goodman, L.Q. Jones, Miranda Otto, John C. McGinley

Synopsis: John Cusack plays Myrl Redding, a horse trader who locks horns with a rancher who has callously mistreated two of his horses, as well as their handler, a Crow Indian. When the law gives Myrl no justice, he is forced to take matters into his own hands, leading to a cycle of violence and chaos. The Read More

Christina's House

Actors: Brendan Fehr, Brad Rowe, John Savage, Allison Lange

Synopsis: Not everyone likes houseguests, especially when they're uninvited (and serial killers to boot), as in this horror story. Christina Tarling (Allison Lange) is a teenage girl who lives with her unstable father James (John Savage) and her younger brother Bobby (Lorne Stewart) in the family's new Read More

Summer of Sam

Actors: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: In the summer of 1977, a serial killer who called himself Son of Sam (real name David Berkowitz) held New York City in terror as he went on a killing spree, periodically writing letters to New York's media in which he took full responsibility for the murders and made clear that he intended to kill Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Equinox, Part II

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Star Trek: Voyager: Equinox, Part I

Actors: Roxann Dawson

The Thin Red Line

Actors: Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, James Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, George Clooney

Synopsis: The return of director Terrence Malick to feature filmmaking after a twenty year sabbatical, this World War II drama is an elegiac rumination on man's destruction of nature and himself, based on James Jones' semi-autobiographical novel, his follow-up to From Here to Eternity. James Caviezel stars Read More

Little Boy Blue

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Jenny Lewis, Adam Burke, Devon Michael, Ryan Phillippe

Synopsis: A teenager tries to shield his family from his father's violence in this downbeat drama. Jimmy West (Ryan Phillippe) is a young man growing up within a horribly dysfunctional family in a small Texas town. His father Ray (John Savage) is a Vietnam veteran whose physical and emotional scars from the Read More

Lost Souls

Actors: John Savage, Barbara Sukowa, Nick Deigman, Laura Harling, Richard Lintern

Synopsis: Although this made-for-TV chiller would seem to have been inspired by The Amityville Horror, it actually has a closer kinship to To Kill a Mockingbird. Moving his family into their new home, tech writer Victor Robinson (John Savage) can't shake the feeling that someone is already living there. Read More

Before Women Had Wings

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Oprah Winfrey, Tina Majorino, Julia Stiles, John Savage

Synopsis: Connie May Fowler adapted her own novel for this dark drama about a dysfunctional family in northern rural Florida during the '60s. Alcoholic Billy (John Savage) reflects on his country-music career that never happened and beats his wife Glory Marie (Ellen Barkin), also a drunk. Grown-up son Hank (William Lee Scott Read More

Managua

Actors: Louis Gossett, Jr., John Savage, Assumpta Serna

Synopsis: Following the death of an American war correspondent (John Rice) in Nicaragua, his best friend, a New York stock broker (Louis Gossett, Jr.) is sent down by the State Department to claim the body. Upon his arrival to the nation's capitol, Managua, he discovers that the body has supposedly already Read More

Hollywood Safari

Actors: John Savage, Ted Jan Roberts, David Leisure

Synopsis: The animal movie Hollywood Safari features a case of mistaken identity. Kensho, a trained lion used on film sets, is mistaken for a mountain lion that has killed people after he becomes separated from his handlers and goes into the wild. Troy and Jane, the animal trainers who control Kensho Read More

The Mouse

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This off-beat sports comedy follows the misadventures of a professional loser. Bruce "the Mouse" Strauss is proud that he holds the unofficial record for getting knocked out in boxing rings on every continent except Antarctica. He is a lousy boxer; he knows it and is happy to amuse audiences by Read More

Markus 4

Actors: Bentley Mitchum, John Savage, Robert Carradine, Sherrie Rose, Joseph Culp

Synopsis: In this sci-fi thriller, a young musician living on another planet sets off for revenge against the egomaniacal corporate fiend responsible for the murder of his twin brother. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Amnesia

Actors: Nicholas Walker, Ally Sheedy, Sally Kirkland, John Savage

Synopsis: Ally Sheedy, John Savage and Nicholas Walker co-headline this barely released indie feature from 1996, which arrived just prior to Sheedy's shattering onscreen rebound in Lisa Cholodenko's High Art. Walker stars as Paul, a sleazy, philandering pastor in an American small town, married to the Read More

White Squall

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf, Jeremy Sisto

Synopsis: Based on a true incident from 1960, White Squall is the story of the tragic sinking of the Albatross, a prep school educational two-masted schooner, during a Caribbean storm. Screenwriter Todd Robinson wrote the script after meeting one of the tragedy's survivors, Chuck Gieg. In the film, Gieg (Scott Wolf Read More

Where Truth Lies

Actors: John Savage, Kim Cattrall, Malcolm McDowell, Candice Daly, Eric Pierpoint

Synopsis: Psychotherapist Dr. Ian Lazarre becomes dangerously depressed after his beloved first wife is killed in a car wreck. Though he has since married a woman who looks exactly like her, he is still unhappy and drinking heavily. Wanting to help him, his new wife and his best friend send him to a special 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

Beautiful Thing

Actors: Linda Henry, Andrew Fraser, Julie Smith, Glen Berry, Jeillo Edwards, Scott Neal, Ben Daniels, Daniel Bowers, Tameka Empson, Ozdemir Mamodeally

Synopsis: In this alternately somber and witty coming-of-age drama, a pair of teenage boys growing up in a working-class neighborhood become aware of their homosexuality. Introspective Jamie (Glen Berry) is the son of Sandra (Linda Henry), a tough but warm-hearted barmaid who lives in a public housing block Read More

Hostile Intent

Actors: Rob Lowe, John Savage, Sofia Shinas, Saul Rubinek, Louis del Grande

Synopsis: This uninspired, dull action film promotes an anti-national government stance while it tells the tale of a group of men who have developed a foolproof, hack-proof computer system devoted to military matters, and then they go off into the wilderness to engage in war games. Right behind them is a Read More

Carnosaur 2

Actors: John Savage, Cliff De Young

Synopsis: The dinosaurs are back, and they're getting hungrier by the minute in this sequel to the terror tale Carnosaur. There's been a call for help from a secret underground military facility deep in the Nevada desert, so a rescue team led by Maj. McQuade (Cliff De Young) and trouble-shooter Reed (John Savage Read More

One Good Turn

Actors: James Remar, Lenny Von Dohlen, Suzy Amis, John Savage, Richard Minchenberg

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, Matt's life spirals out of control after he meets his old acquaintance Simon, the man who saved Matt from burning to death after a car accident many years before. Unlike Matt who has since become a successful video game programmer, Simon's life has led him to the 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

Tom Clancy's 'OP Center'

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Deidre Hall, Carl Weathers, Rod Steiger, John Savage

Synopsis: Another Tom Clancy political thriller is put to film with this made-for-television movie. Harry Hamlin stars as Paul Hood, the new director of an obsolete government crisis management center. Hood is assigned to downsize the center, but during first day on the job some nuclear warheads are Read More

The Takeover

Actors: Billy Drago, John Savage

Synopsis: Billy Drago, John Savage, and Nick Mancuso star in this violent crime drama about a pair of crime bosses battling over the same turf, which they both want to use to sell drugs. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

C.I.A. II: Target Alexa

Actors: Lorenzo Lamas, Kathleen Kinmont, John Savage

Synopsis: When a top secret nuclear guidance system is stolen by an ex-CIA operative looking to sell the deadly device to the top bidder, it's up to a determined CIA agent and the international terrorist who he has vowed to capture to team up and stop the madman from destabilizing the world in the feature Read More

Tales From the Crypt: Revenge is the Nuts

Synopsis: In this episode of HBO's popular Tales from the Crypt horror anthology series, a wicked man who runs a home for the blind (and abuses its residents) gets a taste of his own medicine from two scheming denizens. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Weapon

Killing Obsession

Actors: John Savage, John Saxon

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, Albert (John Savage) is a psychopath who, after brutally murdering a woman, becomes obsessed with her 11-year-old daughter Annie. Twenty-one years after being sent to prison for his crimes, Albert is freed over the strenuous objections of Dr. Sachs (John Saxon), the Read More

Red Scorpion 2

Actors: Matt McColm, John Savage, Jennifer Rubin, Michael Ironside, Michael Covert

Synopsis: In this Canadian thriller, uneducated, disaffected white youths known as skinheads are attacking racial minorities. A government agent (Michael Ironside) investigating the incidents traces them to a wealthy, extreme right-wing, neo-Nazi businessman who is secretly bankrolling the skinheads, using Read More

The Dangerous

Actors: Robert Davi, Michael Paré, Paula Barbieri, Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, Joel Grey

Synopsis: Filled with plenty of fisticuffs and karate, this actioner follows a tough New Orleans police officer on his personal quest to solve a series cop killings. The cop hires a mercenary biker to help with his private investigation. Their research reveals that the culprit is the town's biggest drug Read More

Shattered Image

Actors: Bo Derek, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: Unorthodox FBI agent Jack Scalia is assigned to investigate the kidnapping of a prominent clothing manufacturer. It seems to Scalia that the whole event has been staged as part of a large-scale fraud. The principal suspect is onetime fashion model Bo Derek, the victim's much-younger wife. Despite Read More

Flynn

Actors: Guy Pearce, Steven Berkoff, Claudia Karvan, John Savage

Synopsis: Errol Flynn (1909-1959) was the son of a highly respected Australian scientist, and was given the opportunity to have an excellent education. However, his athletic and restless spirit caused him to get into trouble constantly, and he soon bailed out of school to go on and have a series of amazing Read More

Daybreak

Synopsis: In this chilling made-for-cable-television outing, the population of the United States is nearly wiped out by a sexually transmitted disease. In order to stop its spread, those infected are sequestered in special camps. To make sure no infected person is allowed to go free, a group of vigilantes Read More

Hunting

Actors: John Savage, Kerry Armstrong, Jeffrey Thomas, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Rigg

Synopsis: A humble but beautiful secretary tires of her husband's eternal depression and embarks upon an affair with a dashing media magnate in this melodrama. The woman is at first dazzled by the man's wealth, charisma, and sexual prowess and pays no heed to the darker side appearing through the cracks of Read More

Primary Motive

Actors: Judd Nelson, Justine Bateman, Richard Jordan, John Savage, Malachi Throne

Synopsis: In this political thriller, an ambitious press secretary discovers that the opposing political candidate has feathered the nest of his campaigns with terrible lies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Porte del Silenzio

The Godfather Part III

Actors: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Sofia Coppola, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: After a break of more than 15 years, director Francis Ford Coppola and writer Mario Puzo returned to the well for this third and final story of the fictional Corleone crime family. Two decades have passed, and crime kingpin Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), now divorced from his wife Kay (Diane Read More

Any Man's Death

Actors: John Savage, William Hickey, Mia Sara, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: John Savage plays a roving reporter on assignment in Africa. While nosing around in the jungle, Savage stumbles upon an unregenerate Nazi war criminal. As he mulls over what do with this information, the Nazi continues laying the groundwork for a worldwide neofascist conspiracy. Despite the Read More

Point of View

Actors: John Savage, Myriam Cyr, Fisher Stevens

Synopsis: Film and reality intermingle as an Israeli writer and film-school teacher creates a screenplay based on his wartime experiences. Flashbacks of his actual experiences commingle with scenes shot by his filmmaking class, as they make two different versions of his script. Despite the potential for Read More

Do the Right Thing

Actors: Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, Richard Edson, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Bill Nunn, Ossie Davis

Synopsis: Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY. Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a smooth-talkin' deejay (Samuel L. Jackson) spins the platters Read More

Point of View

The Beat

Actors: John Savage, David Jacobson, William McNamara, Kara Glover, Jeffrey Horowitz

Synopsis: This drama is based on a play by Mones and is set within a grim New York neighborhood where a new kid comes to the neighborhood. Unlike the street-wise and life-toughened gang members around him, the youth is a sensitive poet who teaches the kids about the meaning and beauty of life. ~ Sandra Read More

Caribe

Actors: John Savage, Kara Glover, Stephen McHattie, Sam Malkin, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: This tepid action adventure mainly serves as a travelogue of tropical Belize. Jeff Richardson (John Savage) is a British secret agent who tries to stop the former CIA agent Whitehale (Stephen McHattie) from dealing powerful explosives. Whitehale blackmails U.S. tourists Helen Williams (Kara Read More

Nairobi Affair

Synopsis: Set in Kenya, this made-for-TV adventure chronicles the courageous attempts of a safari guide to stop avaricious ivory poachers from slaughtering elephants. In order to succeed though, the guide must reconcile with his estranged son who is still angry that his father stole the young man's former Read More

Hotel Colonial

Actors: John Savage, Robert Duvall, Rachel Ward, Massimo Troisi, Anna Galiena

Synopsis: After discovering that his terrorist brother has committed suicide, Marco (John Savage) travels to Columbia to investigate, in this action film. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Desperate

Synopsis: John Savage stars as a troubled man with a checkered past in the made-for-TV Desperate. Born into wealth, Savage turns his back on his heritage by heading for the high seas as skipper of an excursion ship. In Lord Jim fashion, he betrays his customers' trust by jumping ship during a storm. Years Read More

Beauty and the Beast

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, John Savage, Yossi Graber, Michael Schneider, Carmela Marner

Synopsis: This live-action version of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast stars Rebecca De Mornay as the woman who learns to see the charm and love beneath the exterior of a boorish beast who imprisons her in his castle in order to collect a debt from her father. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Actors: Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, J. Kenneth Campbell, Richard Chaves, Josh Cruze

Synopsis: Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam was first telecast April 3, 1988, over the HBO cable service. Based on the book of the same name, the program is devoted to poignant recitations of letters to and from American participants of the Vietnam war. The letters are heard over images culled from Read More

Salvador

Actors: James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo

Synopsis: While Salvador wasn't Oliver Stone's first film (a pair of offbeat horror stories preceded it), it defined his style of fiercely dramatic, politically oriented filmmaking, staked out his territory as one of the major directors of the 1980s and 1990s, and remains one of his strongest works to date. Read More

The Little Sister

Actors: John Savage, Tracy Pollan, Roxanne Hart, Jack Kehoe, Henry Tomaszewski

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama is about Nicki Davis (Tracy Pollan) -- an 18-year-old from a wealthy family who hangs out with a drug-dealing boyfriend -- and Tim Donovan (John Savage), the dedicated probation officer trying to get Nicki to come to grips with the reality of what she is doing. Read More

Soldier's Revenge

Actors: John Savage, Maria Socas, Edgardo Moreira, Frank Cane, Paul Lambert

Synopsis: This drama concerns a Vietnam vet who suffers at the hands of the people around him when he returns from the war. Frank Morgan (John Savage) is villified by the townsfolk because he exposed an American massacre of a Vietnamese village. When an offer comes up to pilot a plane carrying weapons to a Read More

Silent Witness

Synopsis: A young wife and her husband witness the brutal barroom rape of a young woman and now must decide whether or not to testify against the culprits or remain quiet in this made-for-TV drama that exploits an actual Massachusetts case. Compounding her difficulties is the fact that one of the rapists is Read More

Hosszu vagta

Actors: John Savage, Kelly Reno, Ildikó Bánsági, Laszlo Mensaros, Ferenc Bacs

Synopsis: Brady (John Savage) is an American bomber pilot during World War II. While flying over Nazi-occupied Hungary, Brady and his navigator, Swede (Matyas Usztic), are forced to bail out. The good news is that they don't fall into the hands of the Germans; the bad news is that they're captured by a Read More

Maria's Lovers

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum, Keith Carradine, Anita Morris

Synopsis: Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's first American film is a romantic tale about an American war veteran whose dreams of his childhood sweetheart are countered by a less sunny reality. John Savage stars as Ivan Bibic, who has returned home to a small town in Pennsylvania, having suffered a Read More

Coming Out of the Ice

Actors: John Savage

Synopsis: Coming Out of the Ice stars John Savage as the real-life Victor Herman, an American athlete born to Ukrainian immigrants. In 1931, when Herman was sixteen, he and his family moved to the Soviet Union when his father was transferred there for his job with Ford Motor Company. Four years later 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

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

Actors: Burt Lancaster, John Savage, Rod Steiger, Diane Lane, Amanda Plummer

Synopsis: This offbeat and atmospheric western is set in 1893, as a gang led by longtime outlaws Bill Doolin (Burt Lancaster) and Bill Dalton (Scott Glenn) is on the verge of falling apart due to time and fatigue. A pair of teenage girls who long to be part of the outlaw mythos of the west meet up with Read More

Inside Moves

Actors: John Savage, David Morse, Diana Scarwid, Harold Russell, Amy Wright

Synopsis: Richard Donner directed this compassionate tale concerning the daily struggles of handicapped citizens. The film deals with the volatile relationship between Roary (John Savage), who has unsuccessfully tried to kill himself, and the hair-trigger Jerry (David Morse), a basketball player who has no Read More

Hair

Actors: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Nicholas Ray, Annie Golden

Synopsis: Milos Forman's adaptation of the tribal rock musical Hair stars John Savage as Claude, a quiet young man from the Midwest who becomes friendly with a group of New York hippies on his way to begin basic training in the military. The repressed Claude is quite taken with Berger (Treat Williams) and Read More

The Onion Field

Actors: John Savage, James Woods, Ted Danson, Ronny Cox, Franklyn Seales

Synopsis: Joseph Wambaugh's The Onion Field is based on an actual 1963 case. L.A. plainclothesmen Karl Hattinger (John Savage) and Ian Campbell (Ted Danson) routinely investigate a pair of suspicious types, Greg Powell (James Woods) and Jimmy Smith (Franklin Seales). Unexpectedly, Powell pulls a gun on the Read More

The Deer Hunter

Actors: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use Read More

Eric

Synopsis: In this fact-based made-for-TV tearjerker, the promising life of a talented teenage athlete is suddenly destroyed when he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Despite the bad news, the boy does all he can to fight the disease. His devoted mother supports him to the bitter, inevitable end. The story Read More

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

Actors: Gig Young

Synopsis: This TV movie was originally aired as John O'Hara's Gibbsville. Based on O'Hara's semi-autobiographical story anthology The Doctor's Son, the film tells the story of Jim Malloy (John Savage) and his youth in his Pennsylvania home town. Aspiring to become a reporter, Malloy goes to work for Read More

All the Kind Strangers

Actors: Samantha Eggar, Stacy Keach, Robby Benson

Synopsis: This made-for-TV rural horror film from director Burt Kennedy benefits from a fine cast and a tense Clyde Ware screenplay. Samantha Eggar and Stacy Keach play motorists held prisoner by a family of seven sweet-faced young orphans and their savage guard dogs. The children only want a mother and Read More

The Sister-In-Law

Actors: John Savage, Anne Saxon

Synopsis: In this drama, the career of an aspiring singer (John Savage) is threatened when he is drawn into the drug-smuggling organization run by his brother and his brother's seductive wife. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Killing Kind

Actors: John Savage, Ann Sothern, Cindy Williams, Luana Anders, Ruth Roman

Synopsis: This genuinely perverse horror film stars John Savage as a young man forced to participate in the beachfront gang rape of Sue Bernard by his nasty friends. After two years in jail, he returns to the boardinghouse run by his mother (Ann Sothern), who does things like kissing him on the mouth and Read More

Steelyard Blues

Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow, Howard Hesseman

Synopsis: In this counter-culture caper comedy, directed by Alan Myerson (whose work with The Committee and Second City gives the film a quirky sketch comedy freshness), Donald Sutherland plays Veldini, a sad-eyed demolition-derby driver, serving time for larceny. He also possesses a millennial desire to Read More

Bad Company

Actors: John Boyd

Synopsis: Set during the Civil War, Bad Company stars Barry Brown as a Northern boy, Drew Dixon, who heads West to avoid getting drafted. He falls under the spell of Jake Rumsey (Jeff Bridges), an easygoing young con artist. Drew joins Jake's gang of boy bandits, who live by their wits and try to avoid Read More

Love is a Carousel

Synopsis: Filmed in Italy by a British crew, Love is a Carousel features several fleeting celebrities of the 1970s as "themselves." What passes for a plot involves a young girl who escapes her sexually abusive household by heading to Europe. Here she is enveloped by the Anti-Establishment scene, where Read More